The energy functional on the Virasoro-Bott group with the \(L ^{2}\)-metric has no local minima

DOI10.1007/s10455-012-9350-0zbMath1267.35190arXiv1106.4326OpenAlexW3105500311MaRDI QIDQ1950360

Martins Bruveris

Publication date: 13 May 2013

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Virasoro groupdiffeomorphism groupgeodesic distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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