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Cocalibrated G_2-manifolds with Ricci flat characteristic connection

Differential Geometry 2013-04-01 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Any 7-dimensional cocalibrated G_2-manifold admits a unique connection \nabla with skew symmetric torsion. We study these manifolds under the additional condition that the \nabla-Ricci tensor vanishes. In particular, we describe their geometry in case of a maximal number of \nabla-parallel vector fields.

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@article{arxiv.1303.7444,
  title  = {Cocalibrated G_2-manifolds with Ricci flat characteristic connection},
  author = {Thomas Friedrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7444},
  year   = {2013}
}