Natural weak Riemannian structures on the space of Riemannian metrics (Q1920706)

Let \(M\) be an orientable compact smooth manifold of dimension \(n\). Denote by \({\mathcal M}\) the set of all smooth Riemannian structures on \(M\). The space \({\mathcal M}\) is an open convex cone in the vector space \(S_2\) of all smooth symmetric 2-forms on \(M\). Thus, \({\mathcal M}\) is a manifold and at each point \(g\in{\mathcal M}\) the tangent space \(T_g{\mathcal M}\) can be identified with \(S_2\). The manifold \({\mathcal M}\) has a canonical weak Riemannian structure (see the definition of the canonical scalar product in the paper). In the present paper, the author considers some other weak Riemannian structures on \({\mathcal M}\) and obtains for them the formulas for the covariant derivative, curvature tensor, sectional curvatures, and geodesics.