The Second Variation for Null-Torsion Holomorphic Curves in the 6-Sphere

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-01040-9MaRDI QIDQ6358874arXivFDO

Authors Jesse Madnick

Publication date 23 January 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Holomorphic symplectic varieties, hyper-Kähler varieties (14J42)

Abstract: In the round 6-sphere, null-torsion holomorphic curves are fundamental examples of minimal surfaces. This class of minimal surfaces is quite rich: By a theorem of Bryant, extended by Rowland, every closed Riemann surface may be conformally embedded in the round 6-sphere as a null-torsion holomorphic curve. In this work, we study the second variation of area for compact null-torsion holomorphic curves $Sigma$ of genus $g$ and area $4pid$, focusing on the spectrum of the Jacobi operator. We show that if $gleq6$, then the multiplicity of the lowest eigenvalue $lambd{a}_1=-2$ is exactly equal to $4d$. Moreover, for any genus, we show that the nullity is at least $2d+2-2g$. These results are likely to have implications for the deformation theory of asymptotically conical associative $3$-folds in $mathbb{R}^7$, as studied by Lotay.

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