Endomorphism valued cohomology and gauge-neutral matter (Q749886)

The demands of string theory have put a spotlight on 3-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds. This has in turn stimulated a growth industry concerned with producing examples and calculating invariants. There are now many results in this area [see for example Mathematical aspects of string theory, \textit{S.-T. Yau} (ed.) (Singapore 1987; Zbl 0651.00012)] with examples produced from hypersurfaces and complete intersections in products of projective spaces. Within this context, the sheaf cohomology group \(H^ 1(M,End T)\) correspond to matter particles which are neutral with respect to any Yang-Mills gauge interaction. The challenge which is presented is to calculate the dimension of the space for a Calabi-Yau manifold, and in particular for those of the above type. This paper develops the technology for doing so and carries it out for three examples, using exact and spectral sequences associated with the defining equations. The simplest example is that of the quintic hypersurface in \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 4\), where the dimension is calculated as 224. The results, and spectral sequence techniques, may well be useful for more mathematically-minded algebraic geometers, not least because that particular sheaf cohomology group is the infinitesimal deformation space for stable bundles which are deformations of the tangent bundle, whose stability is assured by the Hermitian-Einstein connection provided by the Calabi-Yau theorem.