Local and global well-posedness of the fractional order EPDiff equation on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) (Q2255115)

In an inspiring paper of 1966, \textit{V. I. Arnol'd} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 16, No. 1, 319--361 (1966; Zbl 0148.45301)] made the remarkable discovery that the incompressible Euler equations in Fluid Mechanics can be interpreted as the geodesic equation on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms with respect to the right invariant \(L^2\)-metric. Arnold's paper opened a door for use of geometrical methods in the study of differential equations from nature, and as it turned out, many other physically relevant PDEs admit fruitful geometrical interpretations. The developments are duly referenced in the present paper. The authors main result is a proof of local and global well-posedness of the geodesic equations for fractional order Sobolev metrics on the diffeomorphism group of either the \(d\)-dimensional torus \(\mathbb{T}^d\) or the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^d\). This supplements the paper by \textit{D. Mumford} and \textit{P. W. Michor} [J. Geom. Mech. 5, No. 3, 319--344 (2013; Zbl 1274.35277)], where global well-posedness of the geodesic equations on the group of smooth Sobolev diffeomorphisms of \(\mathbb{R}^d\) was proved for integer order Sobolev metrics.