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Stability of torsion-free G_2 structures along the Laplacian flow

Lotay, JD; Wei, Y; (2019) Stability of torsion-free G_2 structures along the Laplacian flow. Journal of Differential Geometry , 111 (3) pp. 495-526. 10.4310/jdg/1552442608. Green open access

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Abstract

We prove that torsion-free G2 structures are (weakly) dynamically stable along the Laplacian flow for closed G2 structures. More precisely, given a torsion-free G2 structure φ¯¯¯ on a compact 7-manifold M, the Laplacian flow with initial value in [φ¯¯¯], sufficiently close to φ¯¯¯, will converge to a point in the Diff0(M)-orbit of φ¯¯¯. We deduce, from fundamental work of Joyce, that the Laplacian flow starting at any closed G2 structure with sufficiently small torsion will exist for all time and converge to a torsion-free G2 structure.

Type: Article
Title: Stability of torsion-free G_2 structures along the Laplacian flow
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1552442608
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1552442608
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Laplacian flow, G2 structure, torsion-free, stability
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070158
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