Half-flat structures and special holonomy

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDQ012MaRDI QIDQ3069722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Leistner, Lars Schäfer, Fabian Schulte-Hengesbach, V. Cortés

Publication date 19 January 2011

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1222

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: It was proven by Hitchin that any solution of his evolution equations for a half-flat SU(3)-structure on a compact six-manifold M defines an extension of M to a seven-manifold with holonomy in G_2. We give a new proof, which does not require the compactness of M. More generally, we prove that the evolution of any half-flat G-structure on a six-manifold M defines an extension of M to a Ricci-flat seven-manifold N, for any real form G of SL(3,C). If G is noncompact, then the holonomy group of N is a subgroup of the noncompact form G_2^* of G_2^C. Similar results are obtained for the extension of nearly half-flat structures by nearly parallel G_2- or G_2^*-structures, as well as for the extension of cocalibrated G_2- and G_2^*-structures by parallel Spin(7)- and Spin(3,4)-structures, respectively. As an application, we obtain that any six-dimensional homogeneous manifold with an invariant half-flat structure admits a canonical extension to a seven-manifold with a parallel G_2- or G_2^*-structure. For the group H_3 imes H_3, where H_3 is the three-dimensional Heisenberg group, we describe all left-invariant half-flat structures and develop a method to explicitly determine the resulting parallel G_2- or G_2^*-structure without integrating. In particular, we construct three eight-parameter families of metrics with holonomy equal to G_2 and G_2^*. Moreover, we obtain a strong rigidity result for the metrics induced by a half-flat structure (omega, ho) on H_3 imes H_3 satisfying omega(Z,Z)=0 where Z denotes the centre. Finally, we describe the special geometry of the space of stable three-forms satisfying a reality condition. Considering all possible reality conditions, we find four different special K"ahler manifolds and one special para-K"ahler manifold.

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• REDUCED HOLONOMY, HYPERSURFACES AND EXTENSIONS
• Closed \({\mathrm{G}}_2\)-structures on non-solvable Lie groups
• Left-invariant almost para-Hermitian structures on some six-dimensional nilpotent Lie groups
• On the boundary behavior of left-invariant Hitchin and hypo flows
• Symplectic half-flat solvmanifolds
• The Ricci tensor of almost Parahermitian manifolds
• Conformal holonomy, symmetric spaces, and skew symmetric torsion
• Compact solvmanifolds with calibrated and cocalibrated \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-structures
• On the structure of nearly pseudo-Kähler manifolds
• The Laplacian coflow on almost-abelian Lie groups
• Cocalibrated structures on Lie algebras with a codimension one Abelian ideal
• Conformally parallel G₂ structures on a class of solvmanifolds
• Exceptional holonomy on vector bundles with two-dimensional fibers
• Locally conformal calibrated G₂-manifolds
• Half-flat structures on \(S^3\times S^3\)
• \({\mathrm {SU}}(4)\)-holonomy via the left-invariant hypo and Hitchin flow
• Closed \(\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{C})\)-structures on nilmanifolds
• \(G_2\)-manifolds and the ADM formalism
• Half-flat structures on indecomposable Lie groups
• Multi-moment maps
• Left-invariant Einstein metrics on S^3 S^3
• Local type I metrics with holonomy in \(\mathrm{G}_2^\ast\)
• Regular flat structure and generalized Okubo system
• Coclosed \(\mathrm{G}_{2}\)-structures inducing nilsolitons
• Nearly pseudo-Kähler manifolds and related special holonomies
• Geometry and holonomy of indecomposable cones
• Conical Ricci-flat nearly para-Kähler manifolds
• Nearly Parallel G₂-structures with Large Symmetry Group
• Half-flat structures on products of three-dimensional Lie groups
• The geometry of almost Einstein \((2,3,5)\) distributions
• Cocalibrated \(\mathrm G_2\)-structures on products of four- and three-dimensional Lie groups
• Lifting \(SU(3)\)-structures to nearly parallel \(G_2\)-structures
• Half-flat structures inducing Einstein metrics on homogeneous spaces

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