Gauge theory and \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-geometry on Calabi-Yau links (Q1998682)

Summary: The 7-dimensional link \(K\) of a weighted homogeneous hypersurface on the round 9-sphere in \(\mathbb{C}^5\) has a nontrivial null Sasakian structure which is contact Calabi-Yau, in many cases. It admits a canonical co-calibrated \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-structure \(\varphi\) induced by the Calabi-Yau 3-orbifold basic geometry. We distinguish these pairs \((K,\varphi)\) by the Crowley-Nordström \(\mathbb{Z}_{48} \)-valued \(\nu\) invariant, for which we prove odd parity and provide an algorithmic formula. We describe moreover a natural Yang-Mills theory on such spaces, with many important features of the torsion-free case, such as a Chern-Simons formalism and topological energy bounds. In fact, compatible \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-instantons on holomorphic Sasakian bundles over \(K\) are exactly the transversely Hermitian Yang-Mills connections. As a proof of principle, we obtain \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-instantons over the Fermat quintic link from stable bundles over the smooth projective Fermat quintic, thus relating in a concrete example the Donaldson-Thomas theory of the quintic threefold with a conjectural \(\mathrm{G}_2\)-instanton count.