Publications [#9664] of Robert L Bryant

Papers Published

1. Calibrated embeddings in the special Lagrangian and coassociative cases, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, vol. 18 no. 3–4 (2000), pp. 405–435 (Special issue in memory of Alfred Gray (1939--1998).)
   (last updated on 2004/04/05)

   Abstract:
   Every closed, oriented, real analytic Riemannian 3-manifold can be isometrically embedded as a special Lagrangian submanifold of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold, even as the real locus of an antiholomorphic, isometric involution. Every closed, oriented, real analytic Riemannian 4-manifold whose bundle of self-dual 2-forms is trivial can be isometrically embedded as a coassociative submanifold in a G_2-manifold, even as the fixed locus of an anti-G_2 involution. These results, when coupled with McLean's analysis of the moduli spaces of such calibrated submanifolds, yield a plentiful supply of examples of compact calibrated submanifolds with nontrivial deformation spaces.