A gradient flow of isometric G₂-structures

DOI10.1007/S12220-019-00327-8MaRDI QIDQ2659486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shubham Dwivedi, Panagiotis Gianniotis, Spiro Karigiannis

Publication date 26 March 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10068

zbMATH Keywords

\(\text{G}_2\) structuresentropygeometric flowsgradient flowisometric \(\text{G}_2\) structurestype-I singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Geometric evolution equations (53E99) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We study a flow of $G_2$ structures which induce the same Riemannian metric which is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. We prove Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor along the flow. We show that at a finite-time singularity the torsion must blow-up, so the flow exists as long as the torsion remains bounded. We prove a Cheeger-Gromov type compactness theorem for the flow. We describe an Uhlenbeck-type trick which together with a modification of the connection gives a nice diffusion-reaction equation for the torsion along the flow. We define a quantity for any solution of the flow and prove that it is almost monotonic along the flow. Inspired by the work of Colding-Minicozzi on the mean curvature flow, we define an entropy functional and after proving an $epsilon$-regularity theorem, we show that low entropy initial data lead to solutions of the flow which exist for all time and converge smoothly to a $G_2$ structure with divergence free torsion. We also study the finite-time singularities and show that at the singular time the flow converges to a smooth $G_2$ structure outside a closed set of finite 5-dimensional Hausdorff measure. Finally, we prove that if the singularity is of Type-I then a sequence of blow-ups of a solution has a subsequence which converges to a shrinking soliton for the flow.

Review text

The authors discuss a flow of \(G_2\)-structures that all induce the same Riemannian metric. This isometric flow is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor T and Cheeger-Gromov type compactness theorem for the flow are proved. They report an Uhlenbeck-type trick which together with a modification of the underlying connection yields a nice reaction-diffusion equation for the torsion along the flow. An entropy functional, after proving an $\varepsilon$-regularity theorem, is defined and they prove that low entropy initial data lead to solutions of the flow that exist for all time and converge smoothly to a \(G_2\)-structure with divergence-free torsion. In the end, they prove that if the singularity is of type I then a sequence of blow-ups of a solution admits a subsequence that converges to a shrinking soliton for the flow.

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