Explicit soliton for the Laplacian co-flow on a solvmanifold (Q2042171)

In the paper under review, solitons are seen as \(G_2\)-structures which scale monotonically under the flow and move by diffeomorphisms, providing potential models for singularities of the flow and tools for desingularising certain singular \(G_2\)-structures. The author obtains an example of an explicit soliton, or invariant self-similar solution of the Laplacian co-flow on a particular almost abelian 7-manifold, by applying the Ansatz for the Laplacian co-flow of invariant \(G_2\)-structures on a Lie group, from [\textit{J. Lauret}, Geometric flows and their solitons on homogeneous spaces, Rend. Semin. Mat., Univ. Politec. Torino 74, No. 1, 55--93 (2016; Zbl 1440.53061)].