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The Hermitian Laplace Operator on Nearly Kähler Manifolds

(Impact Factor: 2.09). 02/2010; 294(1). DOI: 10.1007/s00220-009-0903-4
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ABSTRACT The moduli space NK of infinitesimal deformations of a nearly Kähler structure on a compact 6-dimensional manifold is described by a certain eigenspace of the Laplace operator acting on co-closed primitive (1,1) forms. Using the Hermitian Laplace operator and some representation theory, we compute the space NK on all 6-dimensional homogeneous nearly Kähler manifolds. It turns out that the nearly Kähler structure is rigid except for the flag manifold F(1,2)=SU_3/T^2, which carries an 8-dimensional moduli space of infinitesimal nearly Kähler deformations, modeled on the Lie algebra su_3 of the isometry group.

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• "In this article we shall show that nearly parallel G 2 -manifolds are also in another respect very similar to nearly Kähler manifolds: the description of infinitesimal deformations. In [16] the space of infinitesimal nearly Kähler deformations is identified with the space of primitive co-closed (1, 1)-eigenforms of the Laplace operator for the eigenvalue 2scal /5, [19] contains a similar description of the space of infinitesimal Einstein deformations. This space turns out to be the sum of three such eigenspaces. "
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