The Laplacian flow of locally conformal calibrated \(\operatorname{G}_{2}\)-structures (Q2306127)

Summary: We consider the Laplacian flow of locally conformal calibrated \(\operatorname{G}_2\)-structures as a natural extension to these structures of the well-known Laplacian flow of calibrated \(\operatorname{G}_2\)-structures. We study the Laplacian flow for two explicit examples of locally conformal calibrated \(\operatorname{G}_2\) manifolds and, in both cases, we obtain a flow of locally conformal calibrated \(\operatorname{G}_2\)-structures, which are ancient solutions, that is they are defined on a time interval of the form \((- \infty, T)\), where \(T > 0\) is a real number. Moreover, for each of these examples, we prove that the underlying metrics \(g(t)\) of the solution converge smoothly, up to pull-back by time-dependent diffeomorphisms, to a flat metric as \(t\) goes to \(- \infty\), and they blow-up at a finite-time singularity.