A calibration in $\mathbf R^{16}$ and Federer's product question
Differential Geometry
2025-03-18 v1
Abstract
Building upon the construction of a Cayley calibration adapted to a complex structure, we introduce a calibration in with . This enables us to show that the product of two orthogonally supported calibrations is not necessarily a calibration, thereby providing a negative answer to a question posed by Federer. Dadok and Harvey developed a general method for constructing calibrations as outer products of two unit spinors in the Clifford algebra. We show that arises from the product of two spinors with norm and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.12402,
title = {A calibration in $\mathbf R^{16}$ and Federer's product question},
author = {Roger Züst},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12402},
year = {2025}
}