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The space of closed $G2$-structures. II. concavity and hypersymplectic structures

Differential Geometry 2025-07-29 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In the space of closed G2G_2-structures equipped with Bryant's Dirichlet-type metric, we continue to utilise the geodesic, constructed in our previous article, to show that, under a normalisation condition Hitchin's volume functional is geodesically concave and the G2G_2 Laplacian flow decreases the length. Furthermore, we also construct various examples of hyper-symplectic manifolds on geodesic concavity.

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@article{arxiv.2507.20456,
  title  = {The space of closed $G2$-structures. II. concavity and hypersymplectic structures},
  author = {Kai Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20456},
  year   = {2025}
}