Geodesic distance for right-invariant metrics on diffeomorphism groups: critical Sobolev exponents

Autor: Jerrard, Robert L., Maor, Cy
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Ann Glob Anal Geom (2019) 56 : 351--360
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s10455-019-09670-z
Popis: We study the geodesic distance induced by right-invariant metrics on the group $\operatorname{Diff}_c(M)$ of compactly supported diffeomorphisms of a manifold $M$, and show that it vanishes for the critical Sobolev norms $W^{s,n/s}$, where $n$ is the dimension of $M$ and $s\in(0,1)$. This completes the proof that the geodesic distance induced by $W^{s,p}$ vanishes if $sp\le n$ and $s<1$, and is positive otherwise. The proof is achieved by combining the techniques of two recent papers --- [JM19] by the authors, which treated the sub-critical case, and [BHP18] of Bauer, Harms and Preston, which treated the critical 1-dimensional case.
Comment: v2: minor changes in presentation, no mathematical changes
Databáze: arXiv