Notes on the octonions

zbMATH Open1419.53054arXiv1005.2820MaRDI QIDQ4590930FDOQ4590930

Authors: Dietmar A. Salamon, Thomas Walpuski 

Publication date: 20 November 2017

Abstract: This is an expository paper. Its purpose is to explain the linear algebra that underlies Donaldson-Thomas theory and the geometry of Riemannian manifolds with holonomy in $G_2$ and $mSpin(7)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2820

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to linear algebra (15-01) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

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• Spinorial classification of Spin(7) structures
• Octonion-valued forms and the canonical 8-form on Riemannian manifolds with a Spin(9)-structure
• Harmonic unit normal sections of Grassmannians associated with cross products
• Octonions and the Leech lattice
• Constructing the split octonions
• Deformation of singular connections I: \(G_2\)-instantons with point singularities
• K3 surfaces with two involutions and low Picard number
• The mean curvature of first-order submanifolds in exceptional geometries with torsion
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• \(G_{2}\)-instantons on generalised Kummer constructions
• Cayley fibrations in the Bryant-Salamon Spin(7) manifold
• Para-linearity as the nonassociative counterpart of linearity
• An integral formula for \(G_2\)-structures
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