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

DOI10.1007/S10455-012-9350-0MaRDI QIDQ1950360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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) Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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.

Review text

The geodesic equation for the right invariant \(L ^{2}\)-metric on each Virasoro-Bott group is equivalent to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The main purpose of this paper is to prove that the energy functionals (when restricted to paths with fixed endpoints) for the Virasoro-Bott group and for the diffeomorphism group of \(\mathbb{R}\) have no local minima. In particular, the author gets the same result for the length functional. Given any curve there is a close by curve with the same endpoints that uses less energy. Hence no geodesic is locally energy or length minimizing.

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