Variation formulae for the volume of coassociative submanifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-024-09955-YMaRDI QIDQ6552599zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tommaso Pacini, Alberto Raffero

Publication date 10 June 2024

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10455-024-09955-Y

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{G2}\)-manifoldscoassociative submanifoldsvolume variation formulae

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

Review text

The paper under review deals with the calculus of variations of the volume functional for submanifolds, in a specific geometric context. More precisely, the purpose of this paper is to show how the above plays out in the context of \(G_2\) geometry: one deals with 7-dimensional manifolds endowed with a certain non-degenerate closed 3-form \(\phi\). The authors discuss the analogy between \(G_2\) and Kähler geometry, and point out the differences between them.\par The main result is a new second variation formula, specific to coassociative submanifolds. One standard goal of such a formula is to allow to detect geometric conditions ensuring that a minimal submanifold is also stable. The authors find sufficient conditions.\par The new formulae are illustrated with several examples, both homogeneous and non-homogeneoues.

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