Explains the motivation and reviewing the classical theory in a new form; Discusses conservation laws and Euler equations; For one-dimensional cases, the models presented are completely integrable

Inhalt

1. Introduction / 2. Classical Equations / 3. Specific Models / 4. Common Ancestry: The Nambu-Goto Action / 5. Supersymmetric Generalization / 6. One-Dimensional Case / 7. Towards a Non-Abelian Fluid Mechanics / 8. Noncommutative Fluid Mechanics