H^{o}-type Riemannian metrics on the space of planar curves

DOI10.1090/S0033-569X-07-01084-4MaRDI QIDQ3499459zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jayant Shah

Publication date 29 May 2008

Published in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510192, http://www.ams.org/distribution/qam/2008-66-01/S0033-569X-07-01084-4/home.html

zbMATH Keywords

differential geometrymoduli of planar curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

Abstract: Michor and Mumford have shown that the distances between planar curves in the simplest metric (not involving derivatives) are identically zero. We consider two conformally equivalent metrics for which the distances between curves are nontrivial. We show that in the case of the simpler of the two metrics, the only minimal geodesics are those corresponding to curve evolution in which the points of the curve move with the same normal speed. An equation for the geodesics and a formula for the sectional curvature are derived; a necessary and sufficient condition for the sectional curvature to be bounded is given.

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