A Space of Siamese Contours in Time-dependent Complex Vector Fields John Gill March 2014 Abstract: Siamese Contours – having the same initial points - arise in two or more time-dependent complex vector fields and can be combined into simple sums and products that incorporate the features of the vector fields. These elementary classroom notes illustrate the processes. Imagine the following scenario: We know the various paths a particle in the complex plane would follow over one time-unit due to individual underlying vector fields. How can we combine those paths into a single path the particle will actually follow? Answering this simple question, one is led to a certain vector space having sums, scalar products, products, projection products, and compositions easily defined, correlated with a simple norm and metric. Zeno (or equivalent parametric) contours are defined algorithmically as a distribution of points { } , 0 n kn k z = by the iterative procedure: ( ) , 1, , 1, , k kn k n kn k n n z z z η ϕ - - = + ⋅ which arises from the following composition structure: ( ) , , , 1, , , 1, 1, () lim () , ( ) ( ) , () ( , ) , () () k nn kn kn k n kn kn n n n n Gz G z G z g G z g z z z G z g z η ϕ - →∞ = = = + ⋅ = . Usually , 1 kn n η = , providing a partition of the unit time interval. () z γ is the continuous arc from z to () Gz that results as n →∞ (Euler’s Method is a special case of a Zeno contour). When ( ,) zt ϕ is well-behaved an equivalent closed form of the contours , () zt , has the property (,) dz zt dt ϕ = , with vector field (,) (,) fzt zt z ϕ = + . Siamese contours are streamlines or pathlines joined at their origin and arising from different vector fields.
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A Space of Siamese Contours in Time-dependent Complex Vector Fields
John Gill March 2014
Abstract: Siamese Contours – having the same initial points - arise in two or more time-dependent complex vector
fields and can be combined into simple sums and products that incorporate the features of the vector fields. These
elementary classroom notes illustrate the processes.
Imagine the following scenario: We know the various paths a particle in the complex plane
would follow over one time-unit due to individual underlying vector fields. How can we
combine those paths into a single path the particle will actually follow? Answering this simple
question, one is led to a certain vector space having sums, scalar products, products, projection
products, and compositions easily defined, correlated with a simple norm and metric.
Zeno (or equivalent parametric) contours are defined algorithmically as a distribution of points
{ }, 0
n
k n kz
= by the iterative procedure: ( ), 1, , 1,
, kk n k n k n k n nz z zη ϕ− −= + ⋅ which arises from the