On the topology of the space of almost complex structures on the six sphere

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Authors Bora Ferlengez, Gustavo Granja, Aleksandar Milivojević

Publication date 16 February 2022

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00750, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2021/27-48.html

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zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structuressix sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: The space of orientation-compatible almost complex structures on the six-dimensional sphere naturally contains a copy of seven-dimensional real projective space. We show that the inclusion induces an isomorphism on fundamental groups and rational homotopy groups. We also compute the homotopy fiber of the inclusion and the homotopy groups of the space of almost complex structures in terms of the homotopy groups of the seven-dimensional sphere. Our approach lends itself to generalization to components of almost complex structures with vanishing first Chern class on six-manifolds.

Review text

Let \(\mathcal{J}(S^6)\) be the space of almost complex structures on the six-dimensional sphere \(S^6\). By constructing a fiber sequence \(\mathrm{Map}(S^6,S^1)\to \mathrm{Map}(S^6,S^7) \to \mathcal{J}(S^6)\), the authors show that the homotopy groups of \(\mathcal{J}(S^6)\) are given by \[ \pi_k\mathcal{J}(S^6)\cong \begin{cases} \mathbb{Z}/2, & \mbox{if } k=1 \\ \pi_k(S^7)\oplus \pi_{k+6}(S^7), & \mbox{otherwise}. \end{cases} \] They also show that the inclusion \(j:SO(7)/G_2\cong \mathbb{R}P^7\hookrightarrow \mathcal{J}(S^6)\) induces an isomorphism on their fundamental groups and rational homotopy groups by proving that the homotopy fiber of \(j\) is a path component of \(\Omega^7S^7\). Finally, they illustrate that their approach can be generalized to study the topology of the space of almost complex structures on a closed six-manifold in the component of an almost complex structure with vanishing first Chern class.

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