“…The local well-posedness of the geodesic equation when the inertia operator A is a differential operator has been implicitly solved in the seminal article of Ebin and Marsden [24], see also [52,53,20,58,32,47,44,38,39], and hence for H k -metrics on diffeomorphism groups, where k is an integer. This result has been extended to invariant metrics on several related spaces of mappings, such as spaces of immersions, Riemannian metrics and the Virasoro-Bott group, see [39,6,7,3,11,4]. In a series of papers [29,28,5,41], the local and global well-posedness problem for the general EPDiff equation on Diff ∞ (T d ) or Diff H ∞ (R d ) when the inertia operator is a non-local Fourier multiplier was solved.…”