The energy functional on the Virasoro-Bott group with the L2-metric has no local minima

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 385-395

  Bruveris, Martins ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffeomorphism group; Geodesic distance; Virasoro group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876014024     PISSN: 0232704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10455-012-9350-0     Document Type: Article

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