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Goto's deformation theory of geometric structures, a Lie-theoretical description

Differential Geometry 2016-07-27 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In \cite{Goto}, Ryushi Goto has constructed the deformation space for a manifold equipped with a collection of closed differential forms and showed that in some important cases (Calabi-Yau, G2G_2- and Spin(7)Spin(7)-structures) this deformation space is smooth. This result unifies the classical Bogomolov-Tian-Todorov and Joyce theorems about unobstructedness of deformations. Using the work of Fiorenza and Manetti, we show that this deformation space could be obtained as the deformation space associated to a certain LL_{\infty}-algebra. We also show that for Calabi-Yau, G2G_2- and Spin(7)Spin(7)-structures this LL_{\infty}-algebra is homotopy abelian. This gives a new proof of Goto's theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07509,
  title  = {Goto's deformation theory of geometric structures, a Lie-theoretical description},
  author = {Grigory Papayanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07509},
  year   = {2016}
}

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