Riemannian geometry of the space of volume preserving immersions

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2016.07.002zbMATH Open1357.58013arXiv1603.05916OpenAlexW2301687599WikidataQ115355653 ScholiaQ115355653MaRDI QIDQ344152FDOQ344152

Authors: Martin Bauer, Peter W. Michor, Olaf Müller 

Publication date: 22 November 2016

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a compact manifold $M$ and a Riemannian manifold $N$ of bounded geometry, we consider the manifold $mImm(M,N)$ of immersions from $M$ to $N$ and its subset ${mImm}_{m}u(M,N)$ of those immersions with the property that the volume-form of the pull-back metric equals $mu$. We first show that the non-minimal elements of ${mImm}_{m}u(M,N)$ form a splitting submanifold. On this submanifold we consider the Levi-Civita connection for various natural Sobolev metrics write down the geodesic equation and show local well-posedness in many cases. The question is a natural generalization of the corresponding well-posedness question for the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, which is of great importance in fluid mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05916

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zbMATH Keywords

well-posednessgeodesic equationSobolev metricsvolume preserving immersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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