1. GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF WAVELET METHODS FOR EULER’S EQUATION Wayne Lawton Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore 2 Science Drive 2 Singapore 117543 Email matwml@nus.edu.sg Tel (65) 874-2749

2. RIGID BODIES Euler’s equation inertia operator (from mass distribution) angular velocity in the body for their inertial motion Theoria et ad motus corporum solidorum seu rigodorum ex primiis nostrae cognitionis principiis stbilita onmes motus qui inhuiusmodi corpora cadere possunt accommodata, Memoirs de l'Acad'emie des Sciences Berlin, 1765.

3. IDEAL FLUIDS Euler’s equation pressurevelocity in space for their inertial motion Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam corporum fluidorum pertinentes, M'emoirs de l'Acad'emie des Sciences Berlin, 1765. outward normalof domain

4. GEODESICS Moreau observed that these classical equations describe geodesics, on the Lie groups that parameterize their configurations, with respect to the left, right invariant Riemannian metric determined by the inertia operator (determined from kinetic energy) on the associated Lie algebra Une method de cinematique fonctionnelle en hydrodynamique, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 249(1959), 2156-2158

5. EULER’S EQUATION ON LIE GROUPS Arnold derived Euler’s equation Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, Springer, New York, 1978 that describe geodesics on Lie groups with respect to left, rightinvariant Riemannian metrics

6. GLOBAL ANALYSIS based on this geometric formulation provides a powerful tool for studying fluid dynamics Arnold used it to explain sensitivity to initial conditions in terms of curvature Ebin, Marsden, and Shkoller used it to derive existence, uniqueness and regularity results for both Euler’s and Navier-Stokes equations These ideas are fundamental for the study of a large class of nonlinear partial differential equations and have developed into the extensive field of topological hydrodynamics

7. REPRESENTATIONS Lie groupLie algebra define the adjoint dual For and coadjoint representations

8. WEAK FORMULATION iff Then in this case the energy is constant The inertia operator and positive definite and defines a bilinear form is self-adjoint

9. LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION if and only if the associated momentum satisfies is a geodesicA trajectory where for a left, right invariant Riemannian metric is the angular velocity in the body, in space The momentum lies within a coadjoint orbit which has a sympletic structure and thus even dimension

10. CARTAN-KILLING OPERATOR Define the Cartan-Killing operator B is self-adjoint and satisfies B is nonsingular iff G is semisimple (Cartan) B is positive semidefinite iff G is compact (Weyl)

11. VORTICITY EQUATION Consider a trajectory and associated Thensatisfies the vorticity equation iff in this case the enstrophy is constant

12. VORTICITY FORMULATION If satisfies the vorticity equation Define the Greens operator thensatisfies Euler’s equation is nonsingular then the converse holdsIf thenis a stationary point iff

13. CANONICAL FOURIER BASIS forThere exist a basis such that and If and then

14. CANONICAL REPRESENTATION Structure Constants defined by yield vorticity equation

15. SPARSER REPRESENTATIONS ??? Symmetric forms (each k) can be diagonalized Can they be simultaneously sparsified? Existence of higher order invariants suggests so For any representation are constant; furthermore, Ado’s theorem ensures the existence of faithful finite dimensional representations

16. IDEAL FLUID FLOW IN Poisson bracket (commutator) The weak form of Euler’s equation provides the Faedo-Galerkin approximation method

17. STREAM FUNCTION (orthogonal coordinates Then The Green’s operator has convolution kernel is constant along particles in the flow, therefore the momentsare invariant

18. IDEAL FLUID FLOW IN Identified with ideal flows inthat are periodic with respect to the subgroup with average value zero, for the spectral basis of the complexified stream function Lie algebra

19. FAIRLIER, FLETCHER AND ZACHOS for odd defined the map

20. ZEITLIN used the approximation to approximate flow onby flows on

21. WAVELET BASES Neither the canonical Fourier basis nor the canonical sparse matrix basis provides a sparse representation of Euler’s equation on SU(n) Wavelet vorticity bases provide nearly sparse representations for Euler’s equations because (i)Green’s operator is Calderon-Zygmund (ii) Poisson bracket is exponentially localized Wavelet bases provide simple approximations for invariant moments and energy We are using wavelet bases to study Okubo-Weiss criteria for two-dimensional turbulence