Associative Submanifolds of Squashed 3-Sasakian Manifolds

arXiv2208.10622MaRDI QIDQ6408522FDOQ6408522

Authors: Gavin Ball, Jesse Madnick 

Publication date: 22 August 2022

Abstract: Every compact 3-Sasakian 7-manifold $M$ admits a canonical 2-parameter family of co-closed $ext{G}_2$-structures $varph{i}_{a,b}$ for $a,b>0$, as well as a foliation by $varph{i}_{a,b}$-associative 3-folds whose leaf space $X$ is a positive quaternion-K"{a}hler 4-orbifold. We prove that associative 3-folds in $(M,varph{i}_{a,b})$ that are ruled by a certain type of geodesic are in correspondence with pseudo-holomorphic curves in the almost-complex 8-manifold $Zimes{S}^2$, where $Z$ is the twistor space of $X$ equipped with its strict nearly-K"{a}hler structure. As an application, we construct infinitely many topological types of non-trivial, compact associative 3-folds in the squashed 7-spheres $(S^7,varph{i}_{a,b})$ and squashed exceptional Aloff-Wallach spaces $(N_{1,1},varph{i}_{a,b})$. Topologically, our examples are circle bundles over a genus $g$ surface, for any $ggeq0$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

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