On the geometry of the Virasoro-Bott group

Journal of Lie Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 293-309

  Michor, P W ^a,b   Ratiu, T S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connection; Diffeomorphism group; Jacobi field; KdV equation; Symplectic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444453467     PISSN: 09495932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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