Flows of Spin(7)-structures

dc.creatorKarigiannis, Spiro
dc.date2007-09-28
dc.date2007-10-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:28:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:28:29Z
dc.descriptionWe consider flows of Spin(7)-structures. We use local coordinates to describe the torsion tensor of a Spin(7)-structure and derive the evolution equations for a general flow of a Spin(7)-structure on an 8-manifold M. Specifically, we compute the evolution of the metric and the torsion tensor. We also give an explicit description of the decomposition of the space of forms on a manifold with Spin(7)-structure, and derive an analogue of the second Bianchi identity in Spin(7)-geometry. This identity yields an explicit formula for the Ricci tensor and part of the Riemann curvature tensor in terms of the torsion.
dc.description12 pages. Based on a talk given at the 10th International Conference on Differential Geometry and its Applications, in honour of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Leonhard Euler, Czech Republic. Version 2: Added one remark and one reference
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4594
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4594
dc.identifierProceedings of the 10th Conference on Differential Geometry and its Applications: DGA 2007; World Scientific Publishing, (2008), 263-277.
dc.identifierdoi:10.1142/9789812790613_0023
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/215558
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject53C44
dc.titleFlows of Spin(7)-structures
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