A shallow water equation as a geodesic flow on the Bott-Virasoro group (Q1378916)
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A shallow water equation as a geodesic flow on the Bott-Virasoro group (English)
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26 November 1998
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The author proves that the Camassa-Holm equation gives rise to a geodesic flow of a certain right invariant metric on the Bott-Virasoro group. It is explained that the sectional curvature of this metric is taking positive and negative signs. In addition to these results the paper contains some rather interesting remarks.
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Euler equations
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Korteweg-de Vries equation
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geodesic flow
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Bott-Virasoro group
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