Metric completion conjecture for the outer metric on embeddings
Metric completion conjecture for the outer metric on embeddings
Let be a smooth, compact manifold without boundary with , and let be the space of smooth embeddings equipped with the outer metric . For , set
Let denote the space of -embeddings. Metric completion conjecture. The metric completion of is the space .
The conjecture would identify the completion suggested by the local equivalence between the outer geodesic distance and the norm. The key missing ingredient is an extension operator around arbitrary -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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