ADHM in \(8d\), coloured solid partitions and Donaldson-Thomas invariants on orbifolds (Q6115714)

The authors study the moduli space of solutions of an eight-dimensional analogue of the self-duality equation \(F = \star F\) for the gauge theory curvature in four dimensions. The equation in eight dimensions reads \(F \wedge T = \star F\), where \(F=dA + A\wedge A\) is the curvature of the gauge bundle, \(T\) is an invariant closed four-form and \(\star\) is the Hodge star operator with respect to a given Riemannian structure on the \(8\)-dimensional manifold. The existence of the invariant \(4\)-form \(T\) restricts the holonomy group of the \(8\)-dimensional manifold \(X\) to be contained in \(\text{Spin}(7)\). The authors investigate the moduli space of \(SU(4)\)-invariant BPS conditions in supersymmetric gauge theory on a noncommutative \(\mathbb{C}^4\) by means of an ADHM-like quiver construction. They classify the invariant solutions under the natural toric action in terms of solid partitions. In the orbifold case \(\mathbb{C}^4/G\), \(G\) being a finite subgroup of \(SU(4)\), the classification is given in terms of coloured solid partitions. The statistical weight for their counting is defined through the associated equivariant cohomological gauge theory. The authors explicitly compute several terms of the partition function expansion in the instanton counting parameter on \(\mathbb{C}^4\) and \(\mathbb{C}^2 \times (\mathbb{C}^2/\mathbb{Z}_2)\), which conjecturally provides the corresponding orbifold Donaldson-Thomas invariants.