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Deformation Theory of Asymptotically Conical Coassociative 4-folds

Differential Geometry 2014-02-26 v3

Abstract

We study coassociative 4-folds N in R^7 which are asymptotically conical to a cone C with rate lambda<1. If lambda is in the interval [-2,1) and generic, we show that the moduli space of coassociative deformations of N which are also asymptotically conical to C with rate lambda is a smooth manifold, and we calculate its dimension. If lambda<-2 and generic, we show that the moduli space is locally homeomorphic to the kernel of a smooth map between smooth manifolds, and we give a lower bound for its expected dimension. We also derive a test for when N will be planar if lambda<-2 and we discuss examples of asymptotically conical coassociative 4-folds.

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@article{arxiv.math/0411116,
  title  = {Deformation Theory of Asymptotically Conical Coassociative 4-folds},
  author = {Jason Lotay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0411116},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

50 pages, LaTeX; v2: numerous presentation improvements and changes, some general theory of elliptic operators between weighted Banach spaces added to aid the reader; v3: further results included and proofs streamlined