Catastrophes minimization on the equilibrium manifold

Abstract

In a fixed total resources setting, we show that there exists a Riemannian metric g on the equilibrium manifold, which coincides with any (fixed) Riemannian metric with an economic meaning outside an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the set of critical equilibria, such that a minimal geodesic connecting two regular equilibria is arbitrarily close to a smooth path which minimizes catastrophes.