Geodesic flows on diffeomorphisms of the circle, Grassmannians, and the geometry of the periodic KdV equation (Q5929518)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1585190
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English | Geodesic flows on diffeomorphisms of the circle, Grassmannians, and the geometry of the periodic KdV equation |
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Geodesic flows on diffeomorphisms of the circle, Grassmannians, and the geometry of the periodic KdV equation (English)
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5 April 2001
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This paper is devoted to the study geometric aspects of a certain class of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle modulo conformal diffeomorphisms of the disk. More precisely, this Teichmüller space \({\mathfrak A}\) is endowed with a Hilbert manifold structure by means of a (unique up to constant) right-invariant Kähler metric and contains the Teichmüller space of \(C^\infty\) diffeomorphisms of the circle. Using results from the theory of quasiconformal mappings the authors construct an embedding of \({\mathfrak A}\) into the infinite-dimensional Segal-Wilson Grassmannian. The authors show that if \({\mathfrak A}\) is endowed with the above mentioned right-invariant Kähler metric, then one can associate to each geodesic through the identity a solution to the KdV equation. Furthermore, in this case, the solution to the KdV equation exists for all time.
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conformal diffeomorphism
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periodic KdV equations
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geodesic flow
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orientation preserving diffeomorphisms
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conformal diffeomorphisms
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Hilbert manifold
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Teichmüller space
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KdV equation
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