Generalized Hunter-Saxton equations, optimal information transport, and factorization of diffeomorphisms (Q2347951)

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    Generalized Hunter-Saxton equations, optimal information transport, and factorization of diffeomorphisms
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      Generalized Hunter-Saxton equations, optimal information transport, and factorization of diffeomorphisms (English)
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      10 June 2015
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      The paper under review investigates geodesic equations corresponding to a family of right-invariant Riemannian metrics on the diffeomorphism group of a compact manifold. One of the main results is a factorization of diffeomorphisms that can be regarded as an analogue of the QR factorization of matrices.
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      Euler-Arnold equations
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      Euler-Poincaré equations
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      descending metrics
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      Riemannian submersion
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      diffeomorphism groups
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      Fisher information metric
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      Fisher-Rao metric
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      entropy differential metric
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      geometric statistics
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      Hunter-Saxton equation
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      information geometry
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      optimal transport
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      polar factorization
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      \(QR\) factorization
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      Cholesky factorization
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      Calabi metric
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