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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 H3/2H^{3/2}-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 ss of the metric is greater than 3/23/2, the behaviour for the critical Sobolev index s=3/2s=3/2 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 H3/2H^{3/2}-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}
}