1. Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK;2. Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Via Roberto Cozzi 53, I-20125 Milano, Italy
Abstract:
We study purely nonlocal Hamiltonian structures for systems of hydrodynamic type. In the case of a semi-Hamiltonian system, we show that such structures are related to quadratic expansions of the diagonal metrics naturally associated with the system.