Curvature computations for a two-component Camassa-Holm equation with vorticity

Abstract

In the present paper, a two-component Camassa-Holm (2CH) system with vorticity is studied as a geodesic flow on a suitable Lie group. The paper aims at presenting various details of the geometric formalism and a major result is the computation of the sectional curvature $K$ of the underlying configuration manifold. As a further result, we show that there are directions for which $K$ is strictly positive and bounded away from zero.