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Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 31, 2 (2007) pages : 155--180
On geodesic exponential maps of the Virasoro group
Boris Kolev 1, Thomas Kappeler 2, Adrian Constantin 3, Peter Topalov 4
(04/2007)

We study the geodesic exponential maps corresponding to Sobolev type right-invariant (weak) Riemannian metrics μ(k) (k≥ 0) on the Virasoro group Vir and show that for k≥ 2, but not for k = 0,1, each of them defines a smooth Fréchet chart of the unital element e ∈Vir. In particular, the geodesic exponential map corresponding to the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation (k = 0) is not a local diffeomorphism near the origin.
1 :  Laboratoire d'Analyse, Topologie, Probabilités (LATP)
CNRS : UMR6632 – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III
2 :  Institut für Mathematik
Universität Zürich
3 :  Department of Mathematics [Lund University]
Lund University
4 :  Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Mathématiques/Physique mathématique

Physique/Physique mathématique
Geodesic exponential maps – Virasoro group