Nambu-Hamiltonian flows associated with discrete maps

Abstract

For a differentiable map $(x_1,x_2,...,x_n)\to (X_1,X_2,...,X_n)$ that has an inverse, we show that there exists a Nambu-Hamiltonian flow in which one of the initial value, say $x_n$, of the map plays the role of time variable while the others remain fixed. We present various examples which exhibit the map-flow correspondence.

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