Nearly parallel G₂-manifolds: formality and associative submanifolds

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Authors Marisa Fernández, Anna Fino, Alexei Kovalev, Vicente Muñoz

Publication date 27 August 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global submanifolds (53C40) Local submanifolds (53B25)

Abstract: We construct new examples of non-formal simply connected compact Sasaki-Einstein 7-manifolds. We determine the minimal model of the total space of any fibre bundle over $C{P}^2$ with fibre $S^{1}imes{S}^2$ or $S^3/Z_p$ ($p>0$), and we apply this to conclude that the Aloff-Wallach spaces are formal. We also find examples of formal manifolds and non-formal manifolds, which are locally conformal parallel $Spin(7)$-manifolds. On the other hand, we construct associative minimal submanifolds in the Aloff-Wallach spaces and in any regular Sasaki-Einstein 7-manifold; in particular, in the space $Q(1,1,1)=(SU(2)imesSU(2)imesSU(2))/(U(1)imesU(1))$ with the natural $S^1$-family of nearly parallel $G_2$-structures induced by the Sasaki-Einstein structure. In each of those cases, we obtain a family of non-trivial associative deformations.

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