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This paper explores 4-planes in Spin(7) manifolds with symplectic structures.

Let M be an orientable and irreducible 3-manifold whose boundary is an incompressible torus. Suppose that M does not contain any closed nonperipheral embedded incompressible surfaces. We will show in this paper that the immersed surfaces in M with the 4-plane property can realize only finitely many boundary slopes. Mor…

We describe an action of $U(1)\times Sp(1)$ on $HP^7$ that allows to obtain a $Z_2$-quotient of CAYLEY (the Grassmannian of oriented 4-planes in $R^8$ closed under the three-fold cross product) by quaternionic Kähler reduction.

The paper explores connections between quaternionic and Cayley calibrations in dimensions 8 and 16.

We present a survey of the calibrated geometries arising in the study of the local singularity structure of supersymmetric fivebranes in M-theory. We pay particular attention to the geometries of 4-planes in eight dimensions, for which we present some new results as well as many details of the computations. We also ana…

The squashed 7-sphere $S^{7}$ is a 7-sphere with an Einstein metric given by the canonical variation and its cone $\mathbb{R}^{8} - \{ 0 \}$ has full holonomy ${\rm Spin}(7)$. There is a canonical calibrating 4-form $Φ$ on $\mathbb{R}^{8} - \{ 0 \}$. A minimal 3-submanifold in $S^{7}$ is called associative if its cone …

Here we study the deformations of associative submanifolds inside a G_2 manifold M^7 with a calibration 3-form φ. A choice of 2-plane field Λon M (which always exits) splits the tangent bundle of M as a direct sum of a 3-dimensional associate bundle and a complex 4-plane bundle TM= E\oplus V, and this helps us to relat…

Constructs new coassociative fibrations for G2 manifolds.

By a theorem of Mclean, the deformation space of an associative submanifold Y of an integrable G_2 manifold (M,φ) can be identified with the kernel of a Dirac operator D:Ω^{0}(ν) -->Ω^{0}(ν) on the normal bundle νof Y. Here, we generalize this to the non-integrable case, and also show that the deformation space becomes…