Curvatures of Sobolev metrics on diffeomorphism groups

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2013.V9.N2.A2zbMATH Open1287.58007arXiv1109.1816MaRDI QIDQ2637469FDOQ2637469

Authors: J. Lenells, Gerard Misiołek, Stephen C. Preston, Boris Khesin 

Publication date: 11 February 2014

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

Abstract: Many conservative partial differential equations correspond to geodesic equations on groups of diffeomorphisms. Stability of their solutions can be studied by examining sectional curvature of these groups: negative curvature in all sections implies exponential growth of perturbations and hence suggests instability, while positive curvature suggests stability. In the first part of the paper we survey what we currently know about the curvature-stability relation in this context and provide detailed calculations for several equations of continuum mechanics associated to Sobolev $H^0$ and $H^1$ energies. In the second part we prove that in most cases (with some notable exceptions) the sectional curvature assumes both signs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1816

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilitysectional curvaturediffeomorphism groupsRiemannian metricsEuler-Arnold equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

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