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SU(3)-structures on submanifolds of a Spin(7)-manifold

Stefan Ivanov, Francisco Martín Cabrera

math.DGarXiv:math/0510406

Abstract

Local SU(3)-structures on an oriented submanifold of Spin(7)-manifold are determined and their types are characterized in terms of the shape operator and the type of the Spin(7)-structure. An application to Bryant MR89b:53084 and Calabi MR24 #A558 examples is given. It is shown that the product of a Cayley plane and a minimal surface lying in a four-dimensional orthogonal Cayley plane with the induced complex structure from the octonions described by Bryant in MR89b:53084 admits a holomorphic local complex volume form exactly when it lies in a three-plane, i.e. it coincides with the example constructed by Calabi in MR24 #A558. In this case the holomorphic (3,0)-form is parallel with respect to the unique Hermitian connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion.

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