Curvature of the Virasoro-Bott group
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We consider a natural Riemannian metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of all embeddings from a manifold into a Riemannian manifold, and derive its geodesic equation in the case which turns out to be Burgers' equation. Then we derive the geodesic equation, the curvature, and the Jacobi equation of a right invariant Riemannian metric on an infinite dimensional Lie group, which we apply to , , and the Virasoro-Bott group. Many of these results are well known, the emphasis is on conciseness and clarity.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.math/9801115,
title = {Curvature of the Virasoro-Bott group},
author = {Peter W. Michor and Tudor Ratiu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9801115},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
AmSTeX, 16 p. To appear in J. of Lie Theory