Geodesics, distance, and the CAT(0) property for the manifold of Riemannian metrics

DOI10.1007/S00209-012-0996-XMaRDI QIDQ1936631zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Brian Clarke

Publication date 6 February 2013

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1521

zbMATH Keywords

nonpositive curvaturecompletion\(L^2\) metric\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)manifold of metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Metric geometry (51F99)

Abstract: Given a fixed closed manifold M, we exhibit an explicit formula for the distance function of the canonical L^2 Riemannian metric on the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on M. Additionally, we examine the (metric) completion of the manifold of metrics with respect to the L^2 metric and show that there exists a unique minimal path between any two points. This path is also given explicitly. As an application of these formulas, we show that the metric completion of the manifold of metrics is a CAT(0) space.

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