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Closed $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures with $\mathbb{T}^3$-symmetry and hypersymplectic structures

Differential Geometry 2026-05-13 v3

Abstract

We decompose linear G2\mathrm{G}_2-structure in canonical ways adapted to 3-dimensional subspaces, in terms of certain natural 1-forms and definite triple of 2-forms, and apply the decompositions to the study of G2\mathrm{G}_2-structure with T3\mathbb{T}^3-symmetry. Closed G2\mathrm{G}_2-structures φ\varphi with an effective T3\mathbb{T}^3-symmetry on connected manifolds are roughly classified into two types according the orbits being non-isotropic or isotropic. Type I: if some orbit is non-isotropic, then the action is almost-free and φ\varphi reduces to a good hypersymplectic orbifold with cyclic isotropic groups. Type II: if some orbit is isotropic, then the action is locally multi-Hamiltonian for φ\varphi. Moreover, the open and dense subset of principal orbits is foliated by T3\mathbb{T}^3-invariant hypersymplectic manifolds. If φ\varphi is torsion-free, then for Type I, there arises another natural hypersymplectic structure, and a generalized Gibbons-Hawking Ansatz extending Madsen-Swann Ansatz is derived. For Type II, φ\varphi is locally toric. Assuming moreover completeness and constant orbit volume, exactly three possibilities occur. Type Ia: orbits are purely non-isotropic non-associative, then the hypersymplectic 4-orbifold becomes a flat manifold. Type Ib: orbits are purely associative, then the T3\mathbb{T}^3-action is flat, and the hypersymplectic 4-orbifold becomes a hyperk\"ahler 4-orbifold. Type II: orbits are isotropic, then all orbits are principal, and φ\varphi is flat.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.13747,
  title  = {Closed $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures with $\mathbb{T}^3$-symmetry and hypersymplectic structures},
  author = {Chengjian Yao and Ziyi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13747},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

28 pages, several new Liouville theorems added, in particular fixed a gap in the non-isotropic non-associative case

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