On completeness of groups of diffeomorphisms

  • Martins Bruveris

    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • François-Xavier Vialard

    Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
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Abstract

We study completeness properties of the Sobolev diffeomorphism groups Ds(M)\mathcal D^s(M) endowed with strong right-invariant Riemannian metrics when MM is Rd\mathbb R^d or a compact manifold without boundary. We prove that for s>s > dim (M)/2+1(M)/2+1, the group Ds(M)\mathcal D^s(M) is geodesically and metrically complete and any two diffeomorphisms in the same component can be joined by a minimal geodesic. We then present the connection between the Sobolev diffeomorphism group and the large deformation matching framework in order to apply our results to diffeomorphic image matching.

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Martins Bruveris, François-Xavier Vialard, On completeness of groups of diffeomorphisms. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 19 (2017), no. 5, pp. 1507–1544

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/698