Author(s)

Vladimir Ivancevic¹, Darryn Reid¹, Peyam Pourbeik²

¹Joint and Operations Analysis Division, Defence Science & Technology Group, Adelaide, Australia.
²Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division, Defence Science & Technology Group, Adelaide, Australia.

This paper presents the complex dynamics synthesis of the combat dy-namics series called tensor-centric warfare (TCW; for the first three parts of the series, see [1] [2] [3]), which includes tensor generalization of classical Lanchester-type combat equations, entropic Lie-dragging and commutators for modeling warfare uncertainty and symmetry, and various delta-strikes and missiles (both deterministic and random). The present paper gives a unique synthesis of the Red vs. Blue vectorfields into a single complex battle-vectorfield, using dynamics on Kähler manifolds as a rigorous framework for extending the TCW concept. The global Kähler dynamics framework, with its rigorous underpinning called the Kähler-Ricci flow, provides not only a new insight into the “geometry of warfare”, but also into the “physics of warfare”, in terms of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structures of the battlefields. It also provides a convenient and efficient computational framework for entropic wargaming.

Tensor-Centric Warfare, Kähler Geometry, Complex Battle-Vectorfield, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Battlefields, Kähler-Ricci Flow, Entropic Computational Wargaming

Ivancevic, V. , Reid, D. and Pourbeik, P. (2018) Tensor-Centric Warfare IV: Kähler Dynamics of Battlefields. Intelligent Control and Automation, 9, 123-146. doi: 10.4236/ica.2018.94010.