Abstract

We describe the second order obstruction to deformation for nearly G 2 structures on compact manifolds. Building on work of Alexandrov and Semmelmann, this allows proving rigidity under deformation for the proper nearly G 2 structure on the Aloff–Wallach space N ( 1 , 1 ) .

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