{"paper":{"title":"Riemannian geometry of the space of volume preserving immersions","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"math.DG","authors_text":"Martin Bauer, Olaf M\\\"uller, Peter Michor","submitted_at":"2016-03-18T16:49:13Z","abstract_excerpt":"Given a compact manifold $M$ and a Riemannian manifold $N$ of bounded geometry, we consider the manifold ${\\rm Imm} (M,N)$ of immersions from $M$ to $N$ and its subset ${\\rm Imm}_\\mu (M,N)$ 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 ${\\rm Imm}_\\mu (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"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1603.05916","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}