Desingularization of coassociative 4-folds with conical singularities

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0711-1MaRDI QIDQ841093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason D. Lotay

Publication date 14 September 2009

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611183

zbMATH Keywords

\(G_2\) manifoldsasymptotically conicalcalibrated submanifoldscoassociativeconical singularitiesdesingularizationLagrangian submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformations of submanifolds and subspaces (32G10) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

Abstract: Given a coassociative 4-fold N with a conical singularity in a varphi-closed 7-manifold M (a manifold endowed with a distinguished closed 3-form varphi), we construct a smooth family, {N'(t): tin(0,tau)} for some tau>0, of (smooth, nonsingular,) compact coassociative 4-folds in M which converge to N in the sense of currents, in geometric measure theory, as t tends to 0. This realisation of desingularizations of N is achieved by gluing in an asymptotically conical coassociative 4-fold in R^7, dilated by t, then deforming the resulting compact submanifold of M to the required coassociative 4-fold.

Review text

This work is motivated by results and techniques in previous publications of the author on coassociative 4-folds such as [Commun. Anal. Geom. 15, No.~5, 891--946 (2007; Zbl 1151.53048); Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 99, No.~2, 386--424 (2009; Zbl 1189.53049)]. The idea is to construct a smooth family of compact, nonsingular, coassociative 4-folds parametrized by the interval \((0,\tau)\), \(\tau>0\) that converges to a singular one as \(t\in (0,\tau)\) approaches \(0\), in the sense of currents in geometric measure theory. The author points out that there are analogies between this work and that of D. D. Joyce presented in a series of papers on special Lagrangian submanifolds with conical singularities, especially [Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 26, No.~1, 1--58 (2004; Zbl 1068.53039)]. Work of Kovalyev [Coassociative \(K3\) fibrations of compact \(G_2-\)manifolds. Preprint. \url{arxiv:math.DG/0511150}] that describes the construction of fibrations for a family of compact 7-manifolds, the singular fibers of which are coassociative 4-folds with conical singularities, is also cited. The author discusses the nature of the convergence and supplies definitions, as in previous work. Coassociative submanifolds were introduced by \textit{R. Harvey} and \textit{H. B. Lawson} [Acta Math. 148, 47--152 (1982; Zbl 0584.53021)]. In the present work an equivalent definition is preferred, whereby a 4-dimensional submanifold \(N\) of \(\mathbb R^7\)is coassociative if and only if a certain \(3\)-form \(\varphi\) (the form preserved by the Lie group \(G_2\)) is identically \(0\) on \(N\) and an orientation is chosen (the \(4\)-form \(\star\varphi > 0\) on \(N\)).

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