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Author(s): Gerard Misiolek
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 935-940.
MSC (1991): Primary 58D05; Secondary 35Q53
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Abstract: We study the geometry of a right invariant metric on a central extension $\widehat {{\cal D}}(S^1)$ of the diffeomorphism group of a circle (the Bott-Virasoro group) introduced by Ovsienko and Khesin. We obtain an expression for the curvature tensor of this metric and apply it to find conjugate points in $\widehat {{\cal D}}(S^1)$ .

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Gerard Misiolek
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Email: misiolek.1@nd.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03711-8
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03711-8
Keywords: Diffeomorphism groups, KdV equation, conjugate points
Received by editor(s): October 11, 1995
Communicated by: Hal L. Smith
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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