Bauer's geodesic-completeness conjecture for uniformly stronger weak Riemannian metrics
Let and be smooth, weak Riemannian metrics on an infinte-dimensional Banach manifold . Assume that is uniformly stronger than , both metrics admit a smooth geodesic spray and hence have locally diffeomorphic Riemannian exponential maps, and is geodesically complete, meaning that every geodesic initial value problem has solutions for all time . Possible additional assumptions are that is a topological group with both metrics right invariant, and that derivatives of are controlled by derivatives of . Bauer's geodesic-completeness conjecture. Under these assumptions, is geodesically complete. The conjecture concerns completeness of weak Riemannian metrics on infinite-dimensional manifolds; the source presents the listed conditions as minimal assumptions that might need supplementation, so its general validity remains open.
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Martin Bauer, Nicolas Charon, Philipp Harms, Boris Khesin, Alice Le Brigant, Elodie Maignant, Stephen Marsland, Peter Michor, Xavier Pennec, Stephen Preston, Stefan Sommer and François-Xavier Vialard, “Math in the Black Forest: Workshop on New Directions in Shape Analysis”, arXiv:1811.01370 (2018).
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