Strict stability of calibrated cones

DOI10.1090/PROC/17296MaRDI QIDQ6937317zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 27 August 2025

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/PROC/17296

coassociative cones special Lagrangian cones stable minimal cones

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

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This paper investigates strict stability for calibrated minimal cones with an isolated singularity and establishes sharp criteria for several basic classes: complex cones, special Lagrangian cones in \(\mathbb{C}^n\), and coassociative cones in \(\mathbb{R}^7\). Starting from the classical second-variation quadratic form and the associated Jacobi operator \(L = \Delta^\perp + \widetilde A\) on a minimal cone \(C\subset\mathbb{R}^m\), the authors extend the spectral characterization previously known in codimension one to minimal cones of arbitrary codimension. They express the infimum of the rescaled Rayleigh quotient on the truncated cone \(C_1\) in terms of the dimension \(n\) of \(C\) and the first eigenvalue \(\mu_1\) of the normal stability operator \(L_\Sigma\) on the link \(\Sigma\subset S^{m-1}\), obtaining\N\[\Nd_0(C_1) = \frac{(n-2)^2}{4} + \mu_1,\N\]\Nand show that \(C\) is (strictly) stable if and only if \(d_0(C_1)\ge 0\) (respectively \(>0\)). They further identify the borderline case via the existence of a homogeneous Jacobi field of degree \((2-n)/2\). In the calibrated setting, they first treat complex cones given by zero sets of homogeneous holomorphic polynomials \(f:\mathbb{C}^{n+1}\to\mathbb{C}\): under the assumption that \(\partial f\) vanishes only at the origin, they construct a homogeneous Jacobi field of degree \(1-n\), showing that such complex calibrated cones are stable but never strictly stable and thus furnish natural borderline examples. In contrast, for special Lagrangian cones in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) they obtain strict stability in higher dimensions. They express normal Jacobi fields in terms of closed and co-closed homogeneous one-forms on the link and use eigenvalue formulas for the Hodge Laplacian to rule out nontrivial homogeneous solutions of degree \((2-n)/2\) when \(n\ge5\), and also for \(n=4\) under the assumption that the link is simply connected. A logarithmic cut-off argument in the second-variation formula of \textit{Y.-G. Oh} [Invent. Math. 101, No. 2, 501--519 (1990; Zbl 0721.53060)] and \textit{R. C. McLean} [Commun. Anal. Geom. 6, No. 4, 705--747 (1998; Zbl 0929.53027)] then promotes this spectral information to strict stability for all special Lagrangian cones in these dimensions. An analogous phenomenon holds for coassociative cones calibrated by the standard \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-structure in \(\mathbb{R}^7\): using the identification of the normal bundle with the bundle of anti-self-dual 2-forms, the authors show that there is no closed, homogeneous anti-self-dual 2-form of degree \(-1\). Inserting this into the coassociative second-variation formula yields strict stability for every coassociative cone. Taken together, these results give explicit spectral criteria and exhibit a contrast between complex calibrated cones, which are stable but not strictly stable, and special Lagrangian or coassociative cones, which are strictly stable, with applications to gluing constructions of minimal submanifolds with prescribed isolated singularities.

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