Deformations of associative submanifolds with boundary

Abstract: Let

M

be a topological

G_{2}

-manifold. We prove that the space of infinitesimal associative deformations of a compact associative submanifold

Y

with boundary in a coassociative submanifold

X

is the solution space of an elliptic problem. For a connected boundary

p a r t i a l Y

of genus

g

, the index is given by

i n t_{p a r t i a l Y} c_{1} (u_{X}) + 1 - g

, where

u_{X}

denotes the orthogonal complement of

T p a r t i a l Y

in

T X_{| p a r t i a l Y}

and

c_{1} (u_{X})

the first Chern class of

u_{X}

with respect to its natural complex structure. Further, we exhibit explicit examples of non-trivial index.

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