Metric coordinate systems

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Authors Craig Calcaterra, Axel Boldt, Michael Green, David D. Bleecker

Publication date 8 May 2009

Published in Communications in Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206253

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy-Lipschitz Theoremdistance coordinatesmetric coordinatesmetric spacevector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential equations in abstract spaces (34G99) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45)

Abstract: Coordinate systems are defined on general metric spaces with the purpose of generalizing vector fields on a manifold. Conversion formulae are available between metric and Cartesian coordinates on a Hilbert space. Nagumo's Invariance Theorem is invoked to prove the analogue of the classical Cauchy-Lipschitz Theorem for vector fields on a locally compact coordinatized space. A metric space version of Nagumo's Theorem is one consequence. Examples are given throughout.

Review text

In this work \textit{metric coordinate systems} are defined with the objective of exporting the notion of vector fields on manifolds to metric spaces. The authors introduce the mentioned notion, give several examples and show the relationship between Cartesian and metric coordinates on Euclidean and Hilbert spaces. They continue by defining \textit{derivatives of curves, tangent bundles} and \textit{vector fields} in metric coordinate systems and they prove the main theorem which assure that the defined vector fields, under some conditions, have integral curves (an analogue to the classical Cauchy-Lipschitz Theorem in this context). Finally they state some open problems on the topic.

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