Geodesic completeness of the $H^{3/2}$ metric on $\mathrm{Diff}(S^{1})$
Differential Geometry
2020-03-23 v3 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
Of concern is the study of the long-time existence of solutions to the Euler--Arnold equation of the right-invariant -metric on the diffeomorphism group of the circle. In previous work by Escher and Kolev it has been shown that this equation admits long-time solutions if the order of the metric is greater than , the behaviour for the critical Sobolev index has been left open. In this article we fill this gap by proving the analogous result also for the boundary case. The behaviour of the -metric is, however, still different from its higher order counter parts, as it does not induce a complete Riemannian metric on any group of Sobolev diffeomorphisms.
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@article{arxiv.1904.12523,
title = {Geodesic completeness of the $H^{3/2}$ metric on $\mathrm{Diff}(S^{1})$},
author = {Martin Bauer and Boris Kolev and Stephen Preston},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12523},
year = {2020}
}