Kähler structures on spaces of framed curves

DOI10.1007/S10455-018-9595-3MaRDI QIDQ1656641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom Needham

Publication date 10 August 2018

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03183

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic reductionelastic shape analysisinfinite-dimensional symplectic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

Abstract: We consider the space $mathcalM$ of Euclidean similarity classes of framed loops in $mathbb{R}^3$. Framed loop space is shown to be an infinite-dimensional K"{a}hler manifold by identifying it with a complex Grassmannian. We show that the space of isometrically immersed loops studied by Millson and Zombro is realized as the symplectic reduction of $mathcalM$ by the action of the based loop group of the circle, giving a smooth version of a result of Hausmann and Knutson on polygon space. The identification with a Grassmannian allows us to describe the geodesics of $mathcalM$ explicitly. Using this description, we show that $mathcalM$ and its quotient by the reparameterization group are nonnegatively curved. We also show that the planar loop space studied by Younes, Michor, Shah and Mumford in the context of computer vision embeds in $mathcalM$ as a totally geodesic, Lagrangian submanifold. The action of the reparameterization group on $mathcalM$ is shown to be Hamiltonian and this is used to characterize the critical points of the weighted total twist functional.

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