Die hier dargelegte Dissertation ist motiviert durch die Vorschläge von Joyce, Doan und Walpuski zur Definitionen enumerativer Invarianten für G2-Mannigfaltigkeit, durch das Zählen gewisser kalibrierter Untermannigfaltigkeiten, sogenannter assoziativen Untermannigfaltigkeiten. In Kapitel 1, werde ich Definitionen und grundlegende Fakten über G2-Mannigfaltigkeit und deren assoziative Untermannigfaltigkeit wiederholen. Darüber hinaus erläutere ich die Konstruktion von G2-Mannigfaltigkeit als verdrehte verbundener Summe. Kapitel 2 schafft die nötige Grundlage für das darauf folgende dritte Kapitel. Hier definiere ich den Modul-Raum der asymptotisch zylindrischen assoziativen Untermannigfaltigkeiten zusammen mit seiner natürlichen Topologie und zeige, dass der Modul-Raum lokal homeomorph zur Urbild-Menge der Null einer glatten Abbildung zwischen zwei endlich-dimensionalen Räu- men ist. In besonderen Fällen ist dieser Modul-Raum eine Lagrangesche Untermannigfaltigkeit des Modul Raums der holomorphen Kurven einer asymptotisch zylindrischen Calabi-Yau Man- nigfaltigkeit. In Kapitel 3 beweise ich ein Klebe-Theorem für ein Paar von asymptotisch zylindrischen as- soziativen Untermannigfaltigkeiten in einem zusammenpassenden Paar von asymptotisch zylin- drischen G2-Mannigfaltigkeiten. Hiermit konstruiere ich neue geschlossene und starre (rigid) assoziative Untermannigfaltigkeiten in verdrehten verbundenen Summe G2-Mannigfaltigkeiten. In Kapitel 4 untersuche ich den Modul-Raum der konisch singulären assoziativen Un- termannigfaltigkeiten in G2-Mannigfaltigkeiten. Durch das Umformulieren des Indexes des Operators, der die Deformationstheorie kontrolliert, in bestimmte Stabilität-Indizes des zu- grundeliegenden assoziativen Kegels begründe ich, dass in einem generischen Pfad in dem Raum der ko-geschlossenen G2-Strukturen keine asymptotisch konischen assoziative Unter- mannigfaltigkeiten existieren, die mindestens eine Singularität besitzen, die auf einem Kegel mit Stabiltätsindex größer als eins modeliert werden. Dieses Resultat lässt sich auf alle speziellen Lagrangesche-Kegel außer den Harvey-Lawson-T2-Kegel und die Vereinigung zweier speziellen Lagrangesche-Flächen anwenden. Zusätzlich lässt sich das Ergebnis auch auf alle konischen assoziativen Untermannigfaltigkeiten anwenden, deren zugrundeliegende Verschlingung (link) holomorphe Kurven mit Null-Torsion in S6 sind. Des Weiteren dienen Teile des vierten Kapitels als Grundlage für das darauf folgende Kapitel 5. Aufgrund einiger Übergangsphänomene entlang eines generischen Pfades von G2-Strukturen, führt das naive Zählen von assoziativen Untermannigfaltigkeiten zu keiner Invariante. Tat- sächlich wurde vermutet, dass a) eine assoziative Untermannigfaltigkeit aus einer assoziativen Untermannigfaltigkeit mit Selbstsschnitt (self-intersection) geboren werden kann, und, dass b) drei assoziative Untermannigfaltigkeiten aus einer konisch singulären assoziativen Un- termannigfaltigkeit, deren Singularität durch den Harvey-Lawson-T2-Kegel modelliert wird, entspringen. In Kapitel 5, beweise ich ein Desingularitätstheorem für konisch singulären assoziative Untermannigfaltigkeit entlang eines Pfades von ko-geschlossenen G2-Strukturen. Somit verifiziere ich Vermutung b) bewiesen und teilweise auch Vermutung a). / The dissertation presented here is motivated from the proposals made by Joyce, Doan and Walpuski to define enumerative invariants of G2-manifolds by counting certain calibrated submanifolds, called associative submanifolds. In Chapter 1, I review the definitions and basic facts of G2-manifolds and associative submanifolds. Moreover, I explain the construction of G2-manifolds as twisted connected sums. Chapter 2 serves as a necessary groundwork for Chapter 3. Here, I define the moduli space of asymptotically cylindrical associative submanifolds with its natural topology and prove that the moduli space is locally homeomorphic to the zero set of a smooth map between two finite-dimensional spaces. In the best scenario, this moduli space is a Lagrangian submanifold of the moduli space of holomorphic curves in the asymptotic Calabi-Yau 3-fold. In Chapter 3, I prove a gluing theorem for a pair of asymptotically cylindrical associative submanifolds in a matching pair of asymptotically cylindrical G2-manifolds. Using this I construct new closed and rigid associative submanifolds of twisted connected sum G2-manifolds. In Chapter 4, I study the moduli space of conically singular associative submanifolds in G2-manifolds. By reformulating the index of the operator that controls the deformation theory in terms of certain stability-index of the associative cones, I establish that in a generic path of co-closed G2-structures there are no conically singular associative submanifolds that have at least one singularity modeled on a cone of stability-index greater than one. This result applies to all special Lagrangian cones, except the Harvey-Lawson T2-cone and a union of two special Lagrangian planes. Additionally, it applies to all associative cones whose links are null-torsion holomorphic curves in S6. Furthermore, parts of Chapter 4 also serve as a necessary groundwork for Chapter 5. The naive counting of associative submanifolds does not lead to an invariant due to several transitions that may occur along a generic path of G2-structures. In fact it was conjectured that a) an associative submanifold born out of an associative submanifold with self intersection, and b) three associative submanifolds arise from a conically singular associative submanifold whose singularity is modeled on Harvey-Lawson T2-cone. In Chapter 5, I prove a desingularization theorem for conically singular associative submanifolds along a path of co-closed G2-structures. Consequently, I verify conjecture b) and partially confirm conjecture a).

In dieser Arbeit untersuchen wir die Interaktion von Holonomie und der globalen Geometrie von Lorentzmannigfaltigkeiten und pseudo-Riemannschen Untermannigfaltigkeiten in Räumen konstanter Krümmung. Insbesondere konstruieren wir schwach irreduzible, reduzible Lorentzmetriken auf den Totalräumen von gewissen Kreisbündeln, was zu einer Konstruktionsmethode von Lorentzmannigfaltigkeiten mit vorgegebener Holonomiedarstellung führt. Danach führen wir eine Bochnertechnik für die Lorentzmannigfaltigkeiten ein, die ein nirgends verschwindendes, paralleles, lichtartiges Vektorfeld zulassen, dessen orthogonale Distribution kompakte Blätter hat. Schließlich klassifizieren wir normale Holonomiedarstellungen von raumartigen Untermannigfaltigkeiten in Räumen konstanter Krümmung und verallgemeinern die Klassifikation eine größere Klasse von Untermannigfaltigkeiten. / In this thesis we study the interaction of holonomy and the global geometry of Lorentzian manifolds and pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds in spaces of constant curvature. In particular, we construct weakly irreducible, reducible Lorentzian metrics on the total spaces of certain circle bundles leading to a construction of Lorentzian manifolds with specified holonomy representations. Then we introduce a Bochner technique for Lorentzian manifolds admitting a nowhere vanishing parallel lightlike vector field whose orthogonal distribution has compact leaves. Finally, we classify normal holonomy representations of spacelike submanifolds in spaces of constant curvature and extend the classification to more general submanifolds.

This thesis is split up into two parts each revolving around Floer homology and quantum cohomology of closed monotone symplectic manifolds. In the first part we consider symplectic manifolds obtained by symplectic reduction. Our main result is that a quantum version of an abelianization formula of Martin holds, which relates the quantum cohomologies of symplectic quotients by a group and by its maximal torus. Also we show a quantum version of the Leray-Hirsch theorem for Floer homology of Lagrangian intersections in the quotient. The second part is devoted to Floer homology of a pair of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds in clean intersection. Under these assumptions the symplectic action functional is degenerated. Nevertheless Frauenfelder defines a version of Floer homology, which is in a certain sense an infinite dimensional analogon of Morse-Bott homology. Via natural filtrations on the chain level we were able to define two spectral sequences which serve as a tool to compute Floer homology. We show how these are used to obtain new intersection results for simply connected Lagrangians in the product of two complex projective spaces. The link between both parts is that in the background the same technical methods are applied; namely the theory of holomorphic strips with boundary on Lagrangians in clean intersection. Since all our constructions rely heavily on these methods we also give a detailed account of this theory although in principle many results are not new or require only straight forward generalizations.

This thesis is split up into two parts each revolving around Floer homology and quantum cohomology of closed monotone symplectic manifolds. In the first part we consider symplectic manifolds obtained by symplectic reduction. Our main result is that a quantum version of an abelianization formula of Martin holds, which relates the quantum cohomologies of symplectic quotients by a group and by its maximal torus. Also we show a quantum version of the Leray-Hirsch theorem for Floer homology of Lagrangian intersections in the quotient. The second part is devoted to Floer homology of a pair of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds in clean intersection. Under these assumptions the symplectic action functional is degenerated. Nevertheless Frauenfelder defines a version of Floer homology, which is in a certain sense an infinite dimensional analogon of Morse-Bott homology. Via natural filtrations on the chain level we were able to define two spectral sequences which serve as a tool to compute Floer homology. We show how these are used to obtain new intersection results for simply connected Lagrangians in the product of two complex projective spaces. The link between both parts is that in the background the same technical methods are applied; namely the theory of holomorphic strips with boundary on Lagrangians in clean intersection. Since all our constructions rely heavily on these methods we also give a detailed account of this theory although in principle many results are not new or require only straight forward generalizations.:1. Introduction 2. Overview of the main results 2.1. Abelianization . 2.2. Quantum Leray-Hirsch theorem 2.3. Floer homology of Lagrangians in clean intersection 3. Background 3.1. Symplectic geometry . 3.2. Hamiltonian action functional 3.3. Morse homology . 3.4. Floer homology 4. Asymptotic analysis 4.1. Main statement . 4.2. Mean-value inequality . 4.3. Isoperimetric inequality 4.4. Linear theory 4.5. Proofs 5. Compactness 5.1. Cauchy-Riemann-Floer equation . 5.2. Local convergence . 5.3. Convergence on the ends 5.4. Minimal energy . 5.5. Action, energy and index estimates 6. Fredholm Theory 6.1. Banach manifold . 6.2. Linear theory 7. Transversality 7.1. Setup 7.2. R-dependent structures 7.3. R-invariant structures . 7.4. Regular points . 7.5. Floer’s ε-norm . 8. Gluing 8.1. Setup and main statement 8.2. Pregluing . 8.3. A uniform bounded right inverse 8.4. Quadratic estimate 8.5. Continuity of the gluing map 8.6. Surjectivity of the gluing map 8.7. Degree of the gluing map 8.8. Morse gluing . 9. Orientations 9.1. Preliminaries and notation 9.2. Spin structures and relative spin structures 9.3. Orientation of caps 9.4. Linear theory . 10.Pearl homology 10.1. Overview . 10.2. Pearl trajectories . 10.3. Invariance . 10.4. Spectral sequences 11.Proofs of the main results 11.1. Abelianization Theorem 11.2. Quantum Leray-Hirsch Theorem . 12.Applications 12.1. Quantum cohomology of the complex Grassmannian 12.2. Lagrangian spheres in symplectic quotients A. Estimates A.1. Derivative of the exponential map A.2. Parallel Transport A.3. Estimates for strips B. Operators on Hilbert spaces B.1. Spectral gap B.2. Flow operator C. Viterbo index D. Quotients of principal bundles by maximal tori D.1. Compact Lie groups D.2. The cohomology of the quotient of principle bundles by maximal tori