《QUATERNIONIC HAMILTON EQUATIONS》青少年教育丛书.pdfVIP

2000]30G35, 70H05 QUATERNIONIC HAMILTON EQUATIONS PAOLA MORANDO AND MASSIMO TARALLO Abstract. The classical Hamilton equations are reinterpreted by means of complex analysis, in a non standard way. This suggests a natural extension of the Hamilton equations to the quaternionic case, extension which coincides with the one introduced in [2] by a completely different approach. 1. Introduction In the last years, a better understanding of the geometrical framework of the classical hamiltonian dynamics led to some interesting generalizations. This is for instance the case of the Nambu dynamics ([7], [10], [6]), where the evolution of the system in a n- dimensional manifold is related to (n − 1) hamiltonian functions, or of the Liouville dynamics, whose properties are studied in [5]. Very recently, in [2] the authors proposed a different extension of the classical hamiltonian dynamics to spaces which are endowed by three symplectic structures, having the same commutation rules as the quaternionic imaginary units. Roughly speaking, this new hyper–hamiltonian dynamics is the sum of three different hamil- tonian dynamics, each one corresponding to a single symplectic structure and to an arbitrary hamiltonian function. The hyper–hamiltonian dynamics retains most of the appealing features of the classical hamiltonian one, included a variational formulation ([2], [3]). Here the reader will not be faced with any new application of the hyper–hamilton- ian dynamics, nor with any discussion about its properties. The aim of this paper is to point out that the extension given in [2], which is natural from the geometrical point of view, is also natural from the point of view of analysis. More precisely, if the classical hamiltonian d