Deformations in G2 manifolds
Deformations in G2 manifolds
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G2 流形中的变形
DOI:
10.1016/j.aim.2007.09.009
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
S. Salur
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作者:
S. Akbulut;S. Salur
Here we study the deformations of associative submanifolds inside a G2manifold M7with a calibration 3-form φ. A choice of 2-plane field Λ on M (which always exists) splits the tangent bundle of M as a direct sum of a 3-dimensional associate bundle and a complex 4-plane bundle TM=E⊕V, and this helps us to relate the deformations to Seiberg–Witten type equations. Here all the surveyed results as well as the new ones about G2manifolds are proved by using only the cross product operation (equivalently φ). We feel that mixing various different local identifications of the rich G2geometry (e.g. cross product, representation theory and the algebra of octonions) makes the study of G2manifolds look harder then it is (e.g. the proof of McLean's theorem [R.C. McLean, Deformations of calibrated submanifolds, Comm. Anal. Geom. 6 (1998) 705–747]). We believe the approach here makes things easier and keeps the presentation elementary.