G2 geometry and integrable systems

Publication date 8 February 2010

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: We study the Hitchin component in the space of representations of the fundamental group of a Riemann surface into a split real simple Lie group in the rank 2 case. We prove that such representations are described by a conformal structure and class of Higgs bundle we call cyclic and we show cyclic Higgs bundles correspond to a form of the affine Toda equations. In each case we relate cyclic Higgs bundles to geometric structures on the surface. We elucidate the geometry of generic 2-plane distributions in 5 dimensions, relating it to a parabolic geometry associated to the split real form of

G_{2}

and a conformal geometry with holonomy in

G_{2}

. We prove the distribution is the bundle of maximal isotropics corresponding to the annihilator of a spinor satisfying the twistor-spinor equation. We study the moduli space of coassociative submanifolds of a

G_{2}

-manifold with an aim towards understanding coassociative fibrations. We consider coassociative fibrations where the fibres are orbits of a

T^{4}

-action of isomorphisms and prove a local equivalence to minimal 3-manifolds in

R^{3, 3} c o n g H^{2} (T^{4}, m a t h b b R)

with positive induced metric.

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