Riemannian geometry of the space of volume preserving immersions

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2016.07.002MaRDI QIDQ344152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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