Sobolev Metrics on the Riemannian Manifold of All Riemannian Metrics
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On the manifold M(M) of all Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold M one can consider the natural L-metric as decribed first by [10]. In this paper we consider variants of this metric which in general are of higher order. We derive the geodesic equations, we show that they are well-posed under some conditions and induce a locally diffeomorphic geodesic exponential mapping. We give a condition when Ricci flow is a gradient flow for one of this metrics.
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