Orthogonal almost-complex structures of minimal energy

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9160-XMaRDI QIDQ2454830zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gil Bor, Marcos Salvai, Luis Hernández Lamoneda

Publication date 22 October 2007

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609511

zbMATH Keywords

anti-self-dual metricconformally flatnearly-Kählerorthogonal almost-complex structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: In this article we apply a Bochner type formula to show that on a compact conformally flat riemannian manifold (or half-conformally flat in dimension 4) certain types of orthogonal almost-complex structures, if they exist, give the absolute minimum for the energy functional. We give a few examples when such minimizers exist, and in particular, we prove that the standard almost-complex structure on the round S^6 gives the absolute minimum for the energy. We also discuss the uniqueness of this minimum and the extension of these results to other orthogonal G-structures.

Review text

The authors seek orthogonal almost-complex structurs \(J\) of minimal energy functional on a compact conformally flat Riemannian manifold \((M^{2n}, g)\). More precisely, by applying the Bochner-type integral formula obtained earlier by the fire first two authors [Differ. Geom. Appl. 15, No. 3, 265--286 (2001; Zbl 1036.53015)] and by the second author [Geom. Dedicata 79, No. 2, 205--218 (2000; Zbl 0961.53041)], they show that on a compact conformally flat Riemannian manifold certain types of orthogonal almost-complex structure, give the absolute minimum for the energy \(E(\omega)\), \(\omega\) being the Kähler form associated to such a structure. Particularly, it is proved that the standard orthogonal almost-complex structure on the 6-sphere \(S^6\) equipped with its standard metric is an energy minimizer. Also, they extend these results to \(G_2\)- and \(\text{Spin}_7\)-structures.

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