Metric completion conjecture for the outer metric on embeddings

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Let MM be a smooth, compact manifold without boundary with dim⁡M=m\dim M=m, and let Emb⁡(M,Rd)\operatorname{Emb}(M,\mathbb R^d) be the space of smooth embeddings equipped with the outer metric dist⁡O\operatorname{dist}^{\mathcal O}. For s>d/2+1s>d/2+1, set

s′=s−(d−m)/2.s'=s-(d-m)/2.

Let Es′(M,Rd)\mathcal E^{s'}(M,\mathbb R^d) denote the space of Hs′H^{s'}-embeddings. Metric completion conjecture. The metric completion of (Emb⁡(M,Rd),dist⁡O)(\operatorname{Emb}(M,\mathbb R^d),\operatorname{dist}^{\mathcal O}) is the space Es′(M,Rd)\mathcal E^{s'}(M,\mathbb R^d).

The conjecture would identify the completion suggested by the local equivalence between the outer geodesic distance and the Hs′H^{s'} norm. The key missing ingredient is an extension operator around arbitrary Hs′H^{s'}-embeddings; the argument currently applies only to smooth embeddings.

References

Primary source

Martins Bruveris, “Riemannian geometry on spaces of submanifolds induced by the diffeomorphism group”, arXiv:1709.05719 (2017).

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