Nambu mechanics Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Nambu dynamics is an interesting generalization of Hamiltonian mechanics. Recall that Hamiltonian mechanics is based upon the flows generated by a smooth Hamiltonian over a symplectic manifold. The flows are symplectomorphisms and hence obey Liouville's theorem. This was soon generalized to flows generated by a Hamiltonian over a Poisson manifold.Nambu came up with a generalization involving Nambu-Poisson manifolds with more than one Hamiltonian.
In particular we have a differential manifold M, for some integer N ≥ 2, we have a smooth N-linear map from n copies of to itself such that it is completely antisymmetric and {h1,...,hN-1,.} acts as a derivation {h1,...,hN-1,fg}={h1,...,hN-1,f}g+f{h1,...,hN-1,g} and the generalized Jacobi identities
There are N − 1 Hamiltonians, H1,..., HN-1 generating a time flow
The case where N = 2 gives a Poisson manifold.
Quantizing Nambu dynamics leads to interesting structures.
