The Hamiltonian structure of classical chromohydrodynamics

Noncanonical Hamiltonian structures are presented both for Yang-Mills/Vlasov plasmas and for ideal fluids interacting with Yang-Mills fields. The Hamiltonian structure for the Yang-Mills/Vlasov system passes over to that for the Yang-Mills fluid in the ''cold-plasma'' limit. The resulting Hamiltonian structure is shown to correspond to a Lie algebra. (orig.)