Deformations of Compact Coassociative 4-folds with Boundary

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dc.creatorKovalev, Alexei
dc.creatorLotay, Jason D.
dc.date2007-12-28
dc.date2008-07-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:27:51Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:27:51Z
dc.descriptionCoassociative 4-folds are a particular class of 4-dimensional submanifolds which are defined in a 7-dimensional manifold M with a G_2 structure given by a `positive' differential 3-form, sometimes called G_2-form. Assuming that a G_2-form on M is closed, we study deformations of a compact coassociative submanifold N with boundary contained in fixed, codimension 1 submanifold S of M with a compatible Hermitian symplectic structure. We show that `small' coassociative deformations of N with special Lagrangian boundary in S are unobstructed and form a smooth moduli space of finite dimension not greater than the first Betti number of the boundary of N. It is also shown that N is `stable' under small deformations of the closed G_2-form on the ambient 7-manifold M. The results can be compared to those for special Lagrangian submanifolds of Calabi--Yau manifolds proved by A.Butscher in math.DG/0110052.
dc.description22 pages. v2: largely rewritten, correcting an error in the previous version, examples and references added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4325
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4325
dc.identifierJ. Geom. Phys. 59 (2009), 63-73
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/215347
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.titleDeformations of Compact Coassociative 4-folds with Boundary
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