Speaker: 

Spiro Karigiannis

Institution: 

University of Waterloo

Time: 

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Remotely

I will discuss joint work with Jason Lotay from arXiv:2002.06444. We show how the three Bryant-Salamon G2 manifolds can be viewed as coassociative fibrations. In all cases the coassociative fibres are invariant under a 3-dimensional group and are thus of cohomogeneity one, In general there are both generic smooth fibres and degenerate singular fibres. The induced Riemannian geometry on the fibres turns out to exhibit asymptotically conical and conically singular behaviour. In some cases we also explicitly determine the induced hypersymplectic structure. In all three cases we show that the "flat limits" of these coassociative fibrations are well-known calibrated fibrations of Euclidean space. Finally, we establish connections with the multimoment maps of Madsen-Swann, the new compact construction of G2 manifolds of Joyce-Karigiannis, and recent work of Donaldson involving vanishing cycles and "thimbles".