Curvature of the Virasoro-Bott group

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Authors: Peter W. Michor, T. S. Ratiu 

Abstract: We consider a natural Riemannian metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of all embeddings from a manifold into a Riemannian manifold, and derive its geodesic equation in the case $Emb(BbbR,BbbR)$ which turns out to be Burgers' equation. Then we derive the geodesic equation, the curvature, and the Jacobi equation of a right invariant Riemannian metric on an infinite dimensional Lie group, which we apply to $Diff(BbbR)$, $Diff(S^1)$, and the Virasoro-Bott group. Many of these results are well known, the emphasis is on conciseness and clarity.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

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