On symplectic 8-manifolds admitting Spin(7)-structure

In this paper we study symplectic 8-manifolds admitting Spin(7)- structure. We give examples and show that many of the symplectic 8-manifolds constructed by Pasquotto satisfy the Chern number relations required to admit a Spin(7)-structure.

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