The basic geometry of the manifold of Riemannian metrics and of its quotient by the diffeomorphism group

DOI10.1307/mmj/1029004004zbMath0694.58008OpenAlexW1974342677WikidataQ115238991 ScholiaQ115238991MaRDI QIDQ909303

David Groisser, Daniel S. Freed

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1029004004

zbMATH Keywords

curvaturegeodesic equationquotient spacemanifold of Riemannian metricsgroup of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

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