Can we run to infinity? The diameter of the diffeomorphism group with respect to right-invariant Sobolev metrics

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-01918-6zbMATH Open1469.58005arXiv1910.04834OpenAlexW2979683916WikidataQ114229018 ScholiaQ114229018MaRDI QIDQ1995239FDOQ1995239

Cy Maor, Martin Bauer

Publication date: 19 February 2021

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The group $extDiff(mathcalM)$ of diffeomorphisms of a closed manifold $mathcalM$ is naturally equipped with various right-invariant Sobolev norms $W^{s,p}$. Recent work showed that for sufficiently weak norms, the geodesic distance collapses completely (namely, when $spleextdimmathcalM$ and $s<1$). But when there is no collapse, what kind of metric space is obtained? In particular, does it have a finite or infinite diameter? This is the question we study in this paper. We show that the diameter is infinite for strong enough norms, when $(s-1)pgeextdimmathcalM$, and that for spheres the diameter is finite when $(s-1)p<1$. In particular, this gives a full characterization of the diameter of $extDiff(S^1)$. In addition, we show that for $ext{Diff}_c(mathbb{R}^n)$, if the diameter is not zero, it is infinite.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04834

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism groupSobolev metricsdiameter of diffeomorphism group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

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