A zoo of diffeomorphism groups on $$ \mathbb{R }^{n}$$ Rn
Peter W. Michor & David Mumford
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
ISSN 0232-704X
Ann Glob Anal Geom DOI 10.1007/s10455-013-9380-2
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Ann Glob Anal Geom DOI 10.1007/s10455-013-9380-2
A zoo of diffeomorphism groups on Rn
Peter W. Michor · David Mumford
Received: 25 November 2012 / Accepted: 6 May 2013 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
n n n Abstract We consider the groups DiffB(R ), Diff H ∞ (R ), and DiffS (R ) of smooth diffeo- n morphisms on R which differ from the identity by a function which is in either B (bounded ∞ = k S in all derivatives), H k≥0 H ,or (rapidly decreasing). We show that all these groups are smooth regular Lie groups.
Keywords Diffeomorphism group · Infinite dimensional regular Lie group · Convenient calculus
Mathematics Subject Classification (1991) 58B20 · 58D15
1 Introduction
The purpose of this article is to prove that the following groups of diffeomorphisms on Rn are regular (see 3.2) Lie groups:
• DiffB(Rn), the group of all diffeomorphisms which differ from the identity by a function which is bounded together with all derivatives separately; see 3.3. n • Diff H ∞ (R ), the group of all diffeomorphisms which differ from the identity by a function ∞ k in the intersection H of all Sobolev spaces H for k ∈ N≥0;see3.4. • DiffS (Rn), the group of all diffeomorphisms which fall rapidly to the identity; see 3.5. n Since, we are giving a kind of uniform proof, we also mention in 3.6 the group Diffc(R ) of all diffeomorphisms which differ from the identity only on a compact subset, where this result n n is known for many years, by and [15,16]. The groups DiffS (R ) and partly Diff H ∞ (R ) have
P. W. Michor (B) Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Nordbergstrasse 15, 1090 Wien, Austria e-mail: [email protected]
D. Mumford Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Box F, Providence, RI 02912, USA e-mail: [email protected] 123 Author's personal copy
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n been used essentially in the papers [1Ð4,10,18]. In particular, Diff H ∞ (R ) is essential if one wants to prove that the geodesic equation of a right Riemannian invariant metric is well-posed with the use of Sobolov space techniques. The regular Lie groups DiffB(E) and DiffS (E) have been treated, using single derivatives iteratively, in [23], for a Banach space E.See[7] for the role of diffeomorphism groups in quantum physics. Andreas Kriegl, Leonard Frerick, and Jochen Wengenroth helped with discussions and hints.
2 Some words on smooth convenient calculus
Traditional differential calculus works well for finite dimensional vector spaces and for Banach spaces. For more general locally convex spaces, we sketch here the convenient approach as explained in [6,8]. The main difficulty is that composition of linear mappings stops to be jointly continuous at the level of Banach spaces, for any compatible topology. We use the notation of [8] and this is the main reference for this section.
2.1 The c∞-topology
Let E be a locally convex vector space. A curve c : R → E is called smooth or C∞ if all derivatives exist and are continuous—this is a concept without problems. Let C∞(R, E) be the space of smooth functions. It can be shown that the set C∞(R, E) does not depend on the locally convex topology of E, only on its associated bornology (system of bounded sets). The final topologies with respect to the following sets of mappings into E coincide:
1. C∞(R, E). { c(t)−c(s) : = , | |, | |≤ } 2. The set of all Lipschitz curves (so that t−s t s t s C is bounded in E, for each C > 0). 3. The set of injections EB → E where B runs through all bounded absolutely convex sub- sets in E,andwhereEB is the linear span of B equipped with the Minkowski functional xB := inf{λ>0 : x ∈ λB}. 4. The set of all Mackey-convergent sequences xn → x (there exists a sequence 0 <λn ∞ with λn(xn − x) bounded).
This topology is called the c∞-topology on E and we write c∞ E for the resulting topological space. In general (on the space D of test functions for example), it is finer than the given locally convex topology, it is not a vector space topology, since scalar multiplication is no longer jointly continuous. The finest among all locally convex topologies on E which are coarser than c∞ E is the bornologification of the given locally convex topology. If E is a Fréchet space, then c∞ E = E.
2.2 Convenient vector spaces
A locally convex vector space E is said to be a convenient vector space if one of the following equivalent conditions is satisfied (called c∞-completeness): ∈ ∞(R, ) 1 ( ) 1. For any c C E the (Riemann-) integral 0 c t dt exists in E. 2. Any Lipschitz curve in E is locally Riemann integrable. 3. A curve c : R → E is smooth if and only if λ ◦ c is smooth for all λ ∈ E∗,whereE∗ is the dual consisting of all continuous linear functionals on E. Equivalently, we may use the dual E consisting of all bounded linear functionals. 123 Author's personal copy
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4. Any MackeyÐCauchy sequence (i. e. tnm(xn − xm) → 0forsometnm →∞in R) converges in E. This is visibly a mild completeness requirement. 5. If B is bounded closed absolutely convex, then EB is a Banach space. 6. If f : R → E is scalarwise Lipk,then f is Lipk,fork ≥ 0. 7. If f : R → E is scalarwise C∞,then f is differentiable at 0. 8. If f : R → E is scalarwise C∞,then f is C∞. Here, a mapping f : R → E is called Lipk if all derivatives up to order k exist and are Lipschitz, locally on R.That f is scalarwise C∞ means λ ◦ f is C∞ for all continuous linear functionals on E.
2.3 Smooth mappings
Let E, F,andG be convenient vector spaces, and let U ⊂ E be c∞-open. A mapping f : U → F is called smooth or C∞,if f ◦ c ∈ C∞(R, F) for all c ∈ C∞(R, U). The main properties of smooth calculus are the following: 1. For mappings on Fréchet spaces this notion of smoothness coincides with all other rea- sonable definitions. Even on R2 this is non-trivial. 2. Multilinear mappings are smooth if and only if they are bounded. 3. If f : E ⊇ U → F is smooth then the derivative d f : U × E → F is smooth, and also d f : U → L(E, F) is smooth where L(E, F) denotes the space of all bounded linear mappings with the topology of uniform convergence on bounded subsets. 4. The chain rule holds. 5. The space C∞(U, F) is again a convenient vector space where the structure is given by the obvious injection ∞ ∞ C (c,) ∞ C (U, F) −→ C (R, R), f → ( ◦ f ◦ c)c,, c∈C∞(R,U),∈F∗ where C∞(R, R) carries the topology of compact convergence in each derivative sepa- rately. 6. The exponential law holds: For c∞-open V ⊂ F, C∞(U, C∞(V, G)) =∼ C∞(U × V, G) is a linear diffeomorphism of convenient vector spaces. 7. A linear mapping f : E → C∞(V, G) is smooth (by (2) equivalent to bounded) if and f evv only if E −→ C∞(V, G) −→ G is smooth for each v ∈ V . This is called the smooth uniform boundedness theorem [8, 5.26]. (8) The following canonical mappings are smooth. ∞ ev : C (E, F) × E → F, ev( f, x) = f (x) ∞ ins : E → C (F, E × F), ins(x)(y) = (x, y) ()∧ : C∞(E, C∞(F, G)) → C∞(E × F, G) ()∨ : C∞(E × F, G) → C∞(E, C∞(F, G)) ∞ ∞ ∞ comp : C (F, G) × C (E, F) → C (E, G) ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ C (, ): C (F, F1) × C (E1, E) → C (C (E, F), C (E1, F1)) ( f, g) → (h → f ◦ h ◦ g) ∞ ∞ : C (Ei , Fi ) → C Ei , Fi
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Note that the conclusion of (6) is the starting point of the classical calculus of variations, where a smooth curve in a space of functions was assumed to be just a smooth function in one variable more. It is also the source of the name convenient calculus. This and some other obvious properties already determine convenient calculus. There are, however, smooth mappings which are not continuous. This is unavoidable and not so horrible as it might appear at first sight. For example, the evaluation E × E∗ → R is jointly continuous if and only if E is normable, but it is always smooth. Clearly smooth mappings are continuous for the c∞-topology. This ends our review of the standard results of convenient calculus. But we will need more. Theorem 2.1 [6, 4.1.19] Let c : R → E be a curve in a convenient vector space E. Let V ⊂ E be a subset of bounded linear functionals such that the bornology of E has a basis of σ(E, V)-closed sets. Then the following are equivalent: 1. c is smooth 2. There exist locally bounded curves ck : R → E such that ◦ c is smooth R → R with ( ◦ c)(k) = ◦ ck,foreach ∈ V. If E is reflexive, then for any point separating subset V ⊂ E the bornology of E has a basis of σ(E, V)-closed subsets, by [6, 4.1.23]. This theorem is surprisingly strong: note that V does not need to recognize bounded sets.
2.4 Faa di Bruno formula
Let g ∈ C∞(Rn, Rk) and let f ∈ C∞(Rk, Rl ). Then the p-th deivative of f ◦ g looks as follows where sym p denotes symmetrization of a p-linear mapping: ⎛ ⎞
⎜ p α α ⎟ p( ◦ )( ) ⎜ j ( ( )) 1 ( ) j ( ) ⎟ d f g x = d f g x d g x ,...,d g x sym p ⎜ ⎟ p! ⎝ j! α1! α j ! ⎠ j=1 α∈N j >0 α1+···+α j =p The one-dimensional version is due to Faà di Bruno [5], the only beatified mathematician. The formula is seen by composing the Taylor series.
3 Groups of smooth diffeomorphisms
3.1 Model spaces for Lie groups of diffeomorphism
If we consider the group of all orientation preserving diffeomorphisms Diff(Rn) of Rn,it is not an open subset of C∞(Rn, Rn) with the compact C∞-topology. So it is not a smooth manifold in the usual sense, but we may consider it as a Lie group in the cartesian closed category of Frölicher spaces, see [8, Section 23] with the structure induced by the injection f → ( f, f −1) ∈ C∞(Rn, Rn)×C∞(Rn, Rn). Or one can use the theory of smooth manifolds based on smooth curves instead of charts from [11,12], which agrees with the usual theory up to Banach manifolds. We shall now describe regular Lie groups in Diff(Rn) which are given by diffeomorphisms of the form f = Id +g where g is in some specific convenient vector spaces of bounded functions in C∞(Rn, Rn). Now, we discuss these spaces on Rn, we describe the smooth curves in them, and we describe the corresponding groups. 123 Author's personal copy
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3.2 Regular Lie groups
We consider a smooth Lie group G with Lie algebra g = TeG modelled on convenient vector spaces. The notion of a regular Lie group is originally due to Omori and collaborators (see [19,20]) for Fréchet Lie groups, was weakened and made more transparent by Milnor [17] and carried over to convenient Lie groups in [9], see also [8, 38.4]. A Lie group G is called regular if the following holds: • For each smooth curve X ∈ C∞(R, g) there exists a curve g ∈ C∞(R, G) whose right logarithmic derivative is X, i.e., g(0) = e g(t) ∂t g(t) = Te(μ )X(t) = X(t).g(t)
h where μ : G × G → G is multiplication with μ(g, h) = g.h = μg(h) = μ (g).The curve g is uniquely determined by its initial value g(0), if it exists. • r ( ) = ( ) r : Put evolG X g 1 where g is the unique solution required above. Then evolG C∞(R, g) → G is required to be C∞ also.
n 3.3 The group DiffB(R )
n n The space B(R ) (called DL∞ (R ) by Schwartz [21]) consists of all smooth functions with all derivatives (separately) bounded. It is a Fréchet space. By [22], the space B(Rn) is linearly isomorphic to ∞⊗ˆ s for any completed tensor product between the projective one and the injective one, where s is the nuclear Fréchet space of rapidly decreasing real sequences. Thus, B(Rn) is not reflexive and not nuclear. The space C∞(R, B(Rn)) of smooth curves in B(Rn) consists of all functions c ∈ C∞(Rn+1, R) satisfying the following property: • ∈ N ,α ∈ Nn ∈ R ∂k∂α ( , ) For all k ≥0 ≥0 and each t the expression t x c t x is uniformly bounded in x ∈ Rn, locally in t. n To see this, we use 2.1 for the set {evx : x ∈ R} of point evaluations in B(R ). Here, |α| ∂α = ∂ k ( ) = ∂k ( ,) x ∂xα and c t t f t . + n n n DiffB(R ) = f = Id +g : g ∈ B(R ) , det(In +dg) ≥ ε>0 denotes the correspond- ing group, see Theorem 3.1 below.
n 3.4 The group Diff H ∞ (R ) ∞(Rn) = k(Rn) The space H k≥1 H is the intersection of all Sobolev spaces which is a D (Rn) ∞(Rn) reflexive Fréchet space. It is called L2 by Schwartz in [21]. By [22], the space H is linearly isomorphic to 2⊗ˆ s. Thus it is not nuclear, not Schwartz, not Montel, but still smoothly paracompact. The space C∞(R, H ∞(Rn)) of smooth curves in H ∞(Rn) consists of all functions c ∈ C∞(Rn+1, R) satisfying the following property: • ∈ N α ∈ Nn ∂k∂α ( ,) For all k ≥0, ≥0 the expression t x f t L2(Rn ) is locally bounded near each t ∈ R. The proof is literally the same as for B(Rn), noting that the point evaluations are continuous k > n on each Sobolev space