Bochner Laplacian

Resolving the viscosity operator ambiguity on Riemannian manifolds via a kinematic selection principle

arXiv:2605.17502v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On a general Riemannian manifold the Navier-Stokes equations admit several inequivalent formulations, differing in the choice of viscous operator: the Hodge Laplacian, the Bochner Laplacian, or the deformation Laplacian. We show that a Lagrangian kinematic construction, in which the strain rate is built from the rate of change of inner products of Lie-dragged connecting vectors, uniquely selects the deformation Laplacian for fluids...