Fundamentals of submersions and immersions between infinite-dimensional manifolds

Abstract

We define submersions f between manifolds M and N modelled on locally convex spaces. If the range N is finite-dimensional or a Banach manifold, then these coincide with the naive notion of a submersion. We study pre-images of submanifolds under submersions and pre-images under mappings whose differentials have dense image. An infinite-dimensional version of the constant rank theorem is provided. We also construct manifold structures on homogeneous spaces G/H of infinite-dimensional Lie groups. Some fundamentals of immersions between infinite-dimensional manifolds are developed as well.