Geodesic Completeness for Sobolev Metrics on the Space of Immersed Plane Curves
arXiv:1312.4995 · doi:10.1017/fms.2014.19
Abstract
We study properties of Sobolev-type metrics on the space of immersed plane curves. We show that the geodesic equation for Sobolev-type metrics with constant coefficients of order 2 and higher is globally well-posed for smooth initial data as well as initial data in certain Sobolev spaces. Thus the space of closed plane curves equipped with such a metric is geodesically complete. We find lower bounds for the geodesic distance in terms of curvature and its derivatives.
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