Speaker
Prof.
Shubham Dwivedi
(Universität Hamburg)
Description
We will discuss the negative gradient flow of an energy functional of Spin(7)-structures on compact 8-manifolds. The energy functional is the L2-norm of the torsion of the Spin(7)-structure. We will talk about the short-time existence and uniqueness of solutions to the flow. We will also explain how this negative gradient flow is the most general flow of Spin(7)-structures.
Primary author
Prof.
Shubham Dwivedi
(Universität Hamburg)
