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Infinitely many new families of complete cohomogeneity one G2-manifolds: G2 analogues of the Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson spaces.
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Journal of the European Mathematical Society (EMS Publishing) . 2021, Vol. 23 Issue 7, p2153-2220. 68p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We construct infinitely many new 1-parameter families of simply connected complete non-compact G2-manifolds with controlled geometry at infinity. The generic member of each family has so-called asymptotically locally conical (ALC) geometry. However, the nature of the asymptotic geometry changes at two special parameter values: at one special value we obtain a unique member of each family with asymptotically conical (AC) geometry; on approach to the other special parameter value the family of metrics collapses to an AC Calabi-Yau 3-fold. Our infinitely many new diffeomorphism types of AC G2-manifolds are particularly noteworthy: previously the three examples constructed by Bryant and Salamon in 1989 furnished the only known simply connected AC G2-manifolds. We also construct a closely related conically singular G2-holonomy space: away from a single isolated conical singularity, where the geometry becomes asymptotic to the G2-cone over the standard nearly Kähler structure on the product of a pair of 3-spheres, the metric is smooth and it has ALC geometry at infinity. We argue that this conically singular ALC G2-space is the natural G2 analogue of the Taub-NUT metric in 4-dimensional hyperKähler geometry and that our new AC G2-metrics are all analogues of the Eguchi-Hanson metric, the simplest ALE hyperKähler manifold. Like the Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson metrics, all our examples are cohomogeneity one, i.e. they admit an isometric Lie group action whose generic orbit has codimension one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14359855
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of the European Mathematical Society (EMS Publishing)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157482115
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4171/JEMS/1051