The energy functional of G₂-structures compatible with a background metric

DOI10.1007/S12220-019-00264-6MaRDI QIDQ2659002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonardo Bagaglini

Publication date 25 March 2021

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06356

zbMATH Keywords

\(G_2\)elliptic formally self-adjointgeometric flowsspinorstotal torsion energy functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J99) (G)-structures (53C10) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)

Abstract: We introduce a flow of $G_2$-structures defining the same underlying Riemannian metric, whose stationary points are those structures with divergence-free torsion. We show short-time existence and uniqueness of the solution.

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