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On the Metric Completion of Immersed Open Curves

Ronny Gelman·Cy Maor
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The completeness properties of spaces of immersed curves endowed with Sobolev-type reparametrization-invariant Riemannian metrics have been studied extensively in recent years. Whereas constant-coefficient metrics of large enough order on the space of closed curves are known to be complete, this is not the case for open curves. In this work, we characterize the metric completion of the space of real-valued immersed open curves with respect to these metrics. We show that the set of additional limit points in the completion is homeomorphic to $H^n$-diffeomorphisms of a closed interval. This result answers a question of the structure of the completion, posed in (Bauer et al., Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (2023)), in the negative, and suggests a more refined conjecture on the structure in the case of multi-dimensional ambient space.

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Ronny Gelman, Cy Maor. 2026-09-15. On the Metric Completion of Immersed Open Curves. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17719

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