Sobolev smoothness and invertibility conjecture for the operator
Let be a -dimensional manifold, let be a Riemannian manifold, and let denote the Sobolev completion of the space of immersions. For an immersion , write for the Sobolev sections of of order , and let be the operator associated with the metric determined by .
Smoothness and invertibility conjecture. For each , the operator depends smoothly on the immersion and is invertible as a mapping
This result is intended to extend the projection construction to smooth mappings on Sobolev completions. The required elliptic theory for pseudodifferential operators with Sobolev coefficients is stated as a missing ingredient and is deferred to future work, so the claim is currently open.
References
Primary source
Martin Bauer, Peter Michor and Olaf Müller, “Riemannian geometry of the space of volume preserving immersions”, arXiv:1603.05916 (2016).
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