The Riemannian curvature identities of a G₂ connection with skew-symmetric torsion and generalized Ricci solitons

2023/07/11 by Stefan Ivanov, Ivanov, Stefan, Nikola Stanchev +1 · 5 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.05619

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Abstract

Curvature properties of the characteristic connection on an integrable G₂ manifold are investigated. We consider integrable G₂ manifold of constant type, i.e. the scalar product of the exterior derivative of the G₂ form with its Hodge dual is a constant. We show that on an integrable G₂ manifold of constant type with G₂-instanton characteristic curvature and vanishing Ricci tensor the torsion 3-form is harmonic. Consequently, we prove that the characteristic curvature is symmetric in exchange the first and the second pair and Ricci flat if and only if the three-form torsion is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita and to the characteristic connection simultaneously and this is equivalent to the condition that the characteristic curvature satisfies the Riemannian first Bianchi identity. We find that the Hull connection is a G₂-instanton exactly when the torsion is closed. We observe that any compact integrable G₂ manifold with closed torsion is a generalized gradient Ricci soliton and this is equivalent to a certain vector field to be parallel with respect to the characteristic connection. In particular, this vector field is an infinitesimal automorphism of the G₂ structure and preserves the torsion three form.

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