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Closed warped G$_2$-structures evolving under the Laplacian flow

Differential Geometry 2020-06-09 v2

Abstract

We study the behaviour of the Laplacian flow evolving closed G2_2-structures on warped products of the form M6×S1M^6\times{\mathbb S}^1, where the base M6M^6 is a compact 6-manifold endowed with an SU(3)-structure. In the general case, we reinterpret the flow as a set of evolution equations on M6M^6 for the differential forms defining the SU(3)-structure and the warping function. When the latter is constant, we find sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of the corresponding coupled flow. This provides a method to construct immortal solutions of the Laplacian flow on the product manifolds M6×S1M^6\times{\mathbb S}^1. The application of our results to explicit cases allows us to obtain new examples of expanding Laplacian solitons.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00222,
  title  = {Closed warped G$_2$-structures evolving under the Laplacian flow},
  author = {Anna Fino and Alberto Raffero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00222},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

27 pages. To appear in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze

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