Smooth moduli spaces of associative submanifolds

Abstract: Let

M^{7}

be a smooth manifold equipped with a

G_{2}

-structure

p h i

, and

Y^{3}

be an closed compact

p h i

-associative submanifold. In cite{McL}, R. McLean proved that the moduli space

of the

p h i

-associative deformations of

Y

has vanishing virtual dimension. In this paper, we perturb

p h i

into a

G_{2}

-structure

p s i

in order to ensure the smoothness of

near

Y

. If

Y

is allowed to have a boundary moving in a fixed coassociative submanifold

X

, it was proved in cite{GaWi} that the moduli space

of the associative deformations of

Y

with boundary in

X

has finite virtual dimension. We show here that a generic perturbation of the boundary condition

X

into

X^{'}

gives the smoothness of

. In another direction, we use the Bochner technique to prove a vanishing theorem that forces

or

to be smooth near

Y

. For every case, some explicit families of examples will be given.

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