Hamiltonian evolution of half-flat SU(3) structures

Thu, 29/11/2012
15:00
Thomas Madsen (King's College London) Junior Geometry and Topology Seminar Add to calendar SR1
This talk surveys the well known relationship between half-flat SU(3) structures on 6-manifolds M and metrics with holonomy in G_2 on Mx(a,b), focusing on the case in which M=S3xS3 with solutions invariant by SO(4).