The generality of closed G₂ solitons

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2023.V19.N6.A8MaRDI QIDQ6188623zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert L. Bryant

Publication date 7 February 2024

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09772

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{G}_2\)-structuressolitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry (53-XX) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: The local generality of the space of solitons for the Laplacian flow of closed $G_2$-structures is analyzed, and it is shown that the germs of such structures depend, up to diffeomorphism, on 16 functions of 6 variables (in the sense of E. Cartan). The method is to construct a natural exterior differential system whose integral manifolds describe such solitons and to show that it is involutive in Cartan's sense, so that Cartan-Kahler theory can be applied. Meanwhile, it turns out that, for the more special case of gradient solitons, the natural exterior differential system is not involutive, and the generality of these structures remains a mystery.

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