G₂-structures on Einstein solvmanifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2015.V19.N2.A7MaRDI QIDQ2348282zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Anna Fino, V. Manero, Marisa Fernández

Publication date 11 June 2015

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3616

zbMATH Keywords

\(G_2\)-structureEinstein metricexceptional Lie group \(G_2\)Kähler-Einstein metricRicci-solitonsolvable Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: We study the $G_2$ analogue of the Goldberg conjecture on non-compact solvmanifolds. In contrast to the almost-K"ahler case we prove that a 7-dimensional solvmanifold cannot admit any left-invariant calibrated $G_2$-structure $varphi$ such that the induced metric $g_{varphi}$ is Einstein, unless $g_{varphi}$ is flat. We give an example of 7-dimensional solvmanifold admitting a left-invariant calibrated $G_2$-structure $varphi$ such that $g_{varphi}$ is Ricci-soliton. Moreover, we show that a 7-dimensional (non-flat) Einstein solvmanifold $(S,g)$ cannot admit any left-invariant cocalibrated $G_2$-structure $varphi$ such that the induced metric $g_{varphi}=g$.

Review text

A 7-dimensional smooth manifold \(M\) is said to have a \(G_2\)-structure if there is a reduction of the structure group of its frame bundle from \(\mathrm{GL}(7,\mathbb R)\) to the exceptional Lie group \(G_2 \subset \mathrm{SO}(7)\). In this paper it is proved that a 7-dimensional solvmanifold cannot admit any left-invariant special (calibrated) \(G_2\)-structure such that the induced metric \(g\) is Einstein, unless this metric is flat. A calibrated \(G_2\)-structure can be viewed as the \(G_2\)-analog of an almost-Kähler structure in almost Hermitian geometry. A classification of 6-dimensional solvmanifolds admitting a left-invariant (non-flat) Kähler-Einstein structure is obtained. An example of a 7-dimensional solvmanifold is given admitting a left-invariant calibrated \(G_2\)-structure such that the induced metric \(g\) is Ricci-soliton. Also it is shown that a 7-dimensional non-flat Einstein solvmanifold \((S,g)\) cannot admit any left-invariant cocalibrated \(G_2\) -structure such that the induced metric equals to \(g\).

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