McLean's second variation formula revisited
Differential Geometry
2017-02-03 v2
Abstract
We revisit McLean's second variation formulas for calibrated submanifolds in exceptional geometries, and correct his formulas concerning associative submanifolds and Cayley submanifolds, using a unified treatment based on the (relative) calibration method and Harvey-Lawson's identities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.01267,
title = {McLean's second variation formula revisited},
author = {Hông Vân Lê and Jirí Vanzura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01267},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
14 p final version. Remark 4.6 on McLean's formula added