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The Cayley 4-form (Harvey-Lawson 82) is a certain differential 4-form on the real 8-dimensional space .
which constitutes an exceptional calibration of with its Euclidean geometry.
More generally, a Spin(7)-manifold carries a globalization of this 4-form calibration, then also called a Cayley-4-form.
The stabilizer subgroup inside GL(8) of the Cayley 4-from under the action given by pullback of differential forms is the subgroup Spin(7) inside SO(8).
(Harvey-Lawson 82, Prop. 1.36)
The Cayley 4-form constitutes a calibration of the Euclidean space (Harvey-Lawson 82)
A calibrated submanifold for is also called a Cayley 4-plane (not to be confused with the Cayley plane).
The space (moduli space) of Cayley 4-planes, denoted (Bryant-Harvey 89, (2.19)) or (Gluck-Mackenzie-Morgan 95, (5.20)), is hence a topological subspace of the Grassmannian of all 4-planes in 8-dimensions:
This is of codimension 4 (Harvey-Lawson 82, below (5)). In fact, this space is homeomorphic to the coset space of Spin(7) by Spin(4).Spin(3) = Spin(3).Spin(3).Spin(3) = Sp(1).Sp(1).Sp(1):
(Harvey-Lawson 82, Theorem 1.38, see also Bryant-Harvey 89, (3.19), Gluck-Mackenzie-Morgan 95, (5.20))
Moreover, the coset space of Spin(6) by Spin(3).Spin(3) SO(4)
is the Grassmannian of those Cayley 4-planes which are also special Lagrangian submanifolds (BBMOOY 96, p. 7 (8 of 17)).
See also at Spin Grassmannians.
classification of special holonomy manifolds by Berger's theorem:
Reese Harvey, H. Blaine Lawson, Calibrated geometries, Acta Math. Volume 148 (1982), 47-157 (Euclid:1485890157)
Robert Bryant, Reese Harvey, Submanifolds in Hyper-Kähler Geometry, Journal of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 1-31 (jstor:1990911)
Herman Gluck, Dana Mackenzie, Frank Morgan, Volume-minimizing cycles in Grassmann manifolds, Duke Math. J. Volume 79, Number 2 (1995), 335-404 (euclid:1077285156)
Liviu Ornea, Paolo Piccinni, Cayley 4-frames and a quaternion-Kähler reduction related to , Proceedings of the International Congress of Differential Geometry in the memory of A. Gray, held in Bilbao, Sept. 2000 (arXiv:math/0106116)
Mikhail Katz, Steven Shnider, Cayley 4-form, comass, and triality isomorphisms (arXiv:0801.0283)
Kirill Krasnov, Dynamics of Cayley Forms [arXiv:2403.16661]
On a complex and Lorentzian variant:
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