The geometry of three-forms in six dimensions.

DOI10.4310/JDG/1090341263zbMATH Open1036.53042arXivmath/0010054OpenAlexW1534745613WikidataQ115203098 ScholiaQ115203098MaRDI QIDQ1609792FDOQ1609792

Authors: Nigel Hitchin 

Publication date: 15 August 2002

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the special algebraic properties of alternating 3-forms in 6 and 7 dimensions and introduce a diffeomorphism-invariant functional on the space of differential 3-forms on a closed manifold M in these dimensions. Restricting the functional to closed forms in a fixed cohomology class, we find that a critical point which is generic in a suitable sense defines in the 6-dimensional case a complex threefold with trivial canonical bundle and in 7 dimensions a Riemannian manifold with holonomy G2. This approach gives a direct method of finding a local moduli space, with its special geometry, for these structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010054

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacedifferential three-formsself-duality of 3-formspseudo-Kähler structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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