Date: Thursday 26th January 2012 <br />Speaker: Sergey Grigorian (Stony Brook). <br />Title: Deformations of G2-structures with torsion. <br /> <br />Abstract: We consider non-infinitesimal deformations of G2-structures on 7-dimensional manifolds and derive a closed expression for the torsion of the deformed G2-structure. We then specialize to the case where the deformation lies <br />in the seven-dimensional representation of G2 and is hence defined by a vector v. In this case, we explicitly derive the expressions for the different torsion components of <br />the new G2-structure in terms of the old torsion components and derivatives of v. In particular this gives a set of differential equations for the vector v which have to be satisfied for a transition between G2-structures with particular torsions. For some specific torsion classes we then explore the solutions of these equations. <br /> <br />http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/cheltsov/seminar/
