Metrics on spaces of immersions where horizontality equals normality

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2014.12.008zbMATH Open1321.58007arXiv1403.1436OpenAlexW2044603586WikidataQ115356069 ScholiaQ115356069MaRDI QIDQ490693FDOQ490693

Authors: Martin Bauer, Philipp Harms 

Publication date: 27 August 2015

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study metrics on shape space of immersions that have a particularly simple horizontal bundle. More specifically, we consider reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics $G$ on the space $operatornameImm(M,N)$ of immersions of a compact manifold $M$ in a Riemannian manifold $(N,overlineg)$. The tangent space $T_{f}operatornameImm(M,N)$ at each immersion $f$ has two natural splittings: one into components that are tangential/normal to the surface $f$ (with respect to $overlineg$) and another one into vertical/horizontal components (with respect to the projection onto the shape space $B_i(M,N)=operatornameImm(M,N)/operatornameDiff(M)$ of unparametrized immersions and with respect to the metric $G$). The first splitting can be easily calculated numerically, while the second splitting is important because it mirrors the geometry of shape space and geodesics thereon. Motivated by facilitating the numerical calculation of geodesics on shape space, we characterize all metrics $G$ such that the two splittings coincide. In the special case of planar curves, we show that the regularity of curves in the metric completion can be controlled by choosing a strong enough metric within this class. We demonstrate in several examples that our approach allows us to efficiently calculate numerical solutions of the boundary value problem for geodesics on shape space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1436

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zbMATH Keywords

shape spaceSobolev type metriccurve matchinginfinite dimensional geometryreparametrization groupRiemannian shape analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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• AMPL

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