As you might already know, the Oxford Temporary Congestion Charge has been approved and is planned to come into effect on Wednesday, 29 October 2025. There are various permits available.
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15:30
Nearly G2-structures and G2-Laplacian co-flows
Abstract
Nearly $G_2$-structures in dimension seven are, up to scaling, critical points of a geometric flow called (modified) Laplacian co-flow. Moreover, since nearly $G_2$-structures define Einstein metrics, they can also be associated to critical points of the volume-normalised Ricci flow. In this talk, we will discuss a recent joint work with Jason Lotay, showing that many of these nearly $G_2$ critical points are unstable for the modified co-flow, and giving a lower bound on the index.