Bauer's geodesic-completeness conjecture for uniformly stronger weak Riemannian metrics

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Let G1G^1 and G2G^2 be smooth, weak Riemannian metrics on an infinte-dimensional Banach manifold H\mathcal H. Assume that G2G^2 is uniformly stronger than G1G^1, both metrics admit a smooth geodesic spray and hence have locally diffeomorphic Riemannian exponential maps, and G1G^1 is geodesically complete, meaning that every geodesic initial value problem has solutions for all time tt. Possible additional assumptions are that H\mathcal H is a topological group with both metrics right invariant, and that derivatives of G1G^1 are controlled by derivatives of G2G^2. Bauer's geodesic-completeness conjecture. Under these assumptions, G2G^2 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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