Divergence-free framings of three-manifolds via eigenspinors

2024/04/22 by Lin, Francesco
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.14331

Abstract

Gromov used convex integration to prove that any closed orientable three-manifold equipped with a volume form admits three divergence-free vector fields which are linearly independent at every point. We provide an alternative proof of this (inspired by Seiberg-Witten theory) using geometric properties of eigenspinors in three dimensions. In fact, our proof shows that for any Riemannian metric, one can find three divergence-free vector fields such that at every point they are orthogonal and have the same non-zero length.

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