A heat flow for special metrics

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.08.007MaRDI QIDQ1759378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 20 November 2012

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0421

\(G_2\)-manifolds geometric evolution equations quasilinear parabolic equations

Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: On the space of positive 3-forms on a seven-manifold, we study a natural functional whose critical points induce metrics with holonomy contained in

G_{2}

. We prove short-time existence and uniqueness for its negative gradient flow. Furthermore, we show that the flow exists for all times and converges modulo diffeomorphisms to some critical point for any initial condition sufficiently

C^{i} n f t y

-close to a critical point.

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Let \(M\) be a closed, oriented \(7\)-dimensional manifold. In this very interesting paper, the authors study, on the space of positive \(3\)-forms, a natural ``Dirichlet energy functional \(D(\cdot)\) whose critical points induce metrics with \(G_2\)-holonomy. In the first place, they prove a short-time existence and uniqueness result, namely that given a positive \(3\)-form \(\omega_0\) on \(M\), there exist \(\varepsilon>0\) and a smooth family of positive \(3\)-forms \(\omega(t)\), \(0\leq t\leq\varepsilon\), such that \[ \partial_t\omega=-\mathrm{grad}\,D(\omega),\quad\omega(0)=\omega_0, \] and in addition for any two given solutions \(\omega(t)\) and \(\omega'(t)\) one has that \(\omega(t)=\omega'(t)\) whenever defined. In the second place they prove a stability result, namely that given a torsion-free \(G_2\)-form \(\bar{\omega}\) on \(M\), for initial conditions sufficiently \(C^\infty\)-close to \(\bar{\omega}\) one has that the Dirichlet energy flow exists for all times and converges modulo diffeomorphisms to a torsion-free \(G_2\)-metric.

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