Twisted Calibrations

Abstract
The methods of calibrated geometry are extended to include nonorientable submanifolds which can be oriented by some real Euclidean line bundle. Specifically, if there exists a line bundle-valued differential form of comass one which restricts to a submanifold to be a density, then the submanifold satisfies a minimizing property. The results are applied to show that the cone on the Veronese surface minimizes among a general class of comparison $3$-folds.

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