Riemannian geometry of the space of volume preserving immersions

Martin Bauer, Peter Michor, Olaf Müller

Given a compact manifold $M$ and a Riemannian manifold $N$ of bounded geometry, we consider the manifold $\mathrm{Imm}(M,N)$ of immersions from $M$ to $N$ and its subset ${\rm Imm}_μ…