The energy functional on the Virasoro-Bott group with the L ^2-metric has no local minima

DOI10.1007/S10455-012-9350-0zbMATH Open1267.35190arXiv1106.4326OpenAlexW3105500311MaRDI QIDQ1950360FDOQ1950360

Authors: Martins Bruveris 

Publication date: 13 May 2013

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

Abstract: The geodesic equation for the right invariant $L^2$-metric (which is a weak Riemannian metric) on each Virasoro-Bott group is equivalent to the KdV-equation. We prove that the corresponding energy functional, when restricted to paths with fixed endpoints, has no local minima. In particular solutions of KdV don't define locally length-minimizing paths.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4326

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zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism groupgeodesic distanceVirasoro group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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