Deformations of nearly parallel G_2-structures

Details Deformations of nearly parallel G_2-structures Deformations of nearly parallel G_2-structures

2011-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/1101.2143v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

34 pages

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We study the infinitesimal deformations of a proper nearly parallel G_2-structure and prove that they are characterized by a certain first order differential equation. In particular we show that the space of infinitesimal deformations modulo the group of diffeomorphisms is isomorphic to a subspace of co-closed $\Lambda^3_{27}$-eigenforms of the Laplace operator for the eigenvalue 8 scal/21. We give a similar description for the space of infinitesimal Einstein deformations of a fixed nearly parallel G_2-structure. Moreover we show that there are no deformations on the squashed S^7 and on SO(5)/SO(3), but that there are infinitesimal deformations on the Aloff-Wallach manifold N(1,1) = SU(3)/U(1).

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