A diffeomorphism-invariant metric on the space of vector-valued one-forms

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2021.V17.N1.A4MaRDI QIDQ2025307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Bauer, Stephen C. Preston, Zhe Su, E. Klassen

Publication date 12 May 2021

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10867

zbMATH Keywords

Ebin metricsectional curvatureshape analysisspace of Riemannian metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

Abstract: In this article we introduce a diffeomorphism-invariant Riemannian metric on the space of vector valued one-forms. The particular choice of metric is motivated by potential future applications in the field of functional data and shape analysis and by connections to the Ebin metric on the space of all Riemannian metrics. In the present work we calculate the geodesic equations and obtain an explicit formula for the solutions to the corresponding initial value problem. Using this we show that it is a geodesically and metrically incomplete space and study the existence of totally geodesic subspaces. Furthermore, we calculate the sectional curvature and observe that, depending on the dimension of the base manifold and the target space, it either has a semidefinite sign or admits both signs.

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