Metric completion conjecture for the outer metric on embeddings

Let MM be a smooth, compact manifold without boundary with dimM=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 distO\operatorname{dist}^{\mathcal O}. For s>d/2+1s>d/2+1, set

s=s(dm)/2.s'=s-(d-m)/2.

Let Es(M,Rd)\mathcal E^{s'}(M,\mathbb R^d) denote the space of HsH^{s'}-embeddings. Metric completion conjecture. The metric completion of (Emb(M,Rd),distO)(\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 HsH^{s'} norm. The key missing ingredient is an extension operator around arbitrary HsH^{s'}-embeddings; the argument currently applies only to smooth embeddings.

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Primary source

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

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