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Winter 2004 The exponential map of a weak Riemannian Hilbert manifold
Leonardo Biliotti
Illinois J. Math. 48(4): 1191-1206 (Winter 2004). DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1258138506

Abstract

We prove the Focal Index Lemma and the Rauch--Berger Comparison Theorems on a weak Riemannian Hilbert manifold with a smooth Levi-Civita connection and we apply these results to the free loop space $\Omega (M^n)$ with the $L^2$ (weak) Riemannian structure.

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Leonardo Biliotti. "The exponential map of a weak Riemannian Hilbert manifold." Illinois J. Math. 48 (4) 1191 - 1206, Winter 2004. https://doi.org/10.1215/ijm/1258138506

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Published: Winter 2004
First available in Project Euclid: 13 November 2009

zbMATH: 1083.58009
MathSciNet: MR2113672
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/ijm/1258138506

Subjects:
Primary: 58B20
Secondary: 58D15

Rights: Copyright © 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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