On spin(7) holonomy metric based on SU(3)/U(1). I

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00018-9MaRDI QIDQ1864908zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Hiroaki Kanno, Yukinori Yasui

Publication date 23 March 2003

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108226

zbMATH Keywords

cohomogeneity one metricexceptional holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We investigate the $Spin(7)$ holonomy metric of cohomogeneity one with the principal orbit $SU(3)/U(1)$. A choice of U(1) in the two dimensional Cartan subalgebra is left as free and this allows manifest $Sigm{a}_3=W(SU(3))$ (= the Weyl group) symmetric formulation. We find asymptotically locally conical (ALC) metrics as octonionic gravitational instantons. These ALC metrics have orbifold singularities in general, but a particular choice of the U(1) subgroup gives a new regular metric of $Spin(7)$ holonomy. Complex projective space $$ that is a supersymmetric four-cycle appears as a singular orbit. A perturbative analysis of the solution near the singular orbit shows an evidence of a more general family of ALC solutions. The global topology of the manifold depends on a choice of the U(1) subgroup. We also obtain an $L^2$-normalisable harmonic 4-form in the background of the ALC metric.

Review text

The authors study cohomogeneuity one metrics with \(Spin(7)\) holonomy on eight-dimensional manifolds with orbifold singularities. The principal orbits are homogeneous spaces homeomorphic to \(SU(3)/S^1\) where \(S^1\) is a subgroup of a two-dimensional maximal compact torus in \(SU(3)\). Such spaces were well-known in differential geometry due to the paper by Aloff and Wallach who constructed on them homogeneous metrics of positive sectional curvature. Actually there is a multidimensional space of homogeneous metrics on such spaces and the authors consider conical metrics on of the form \(dt^2 + ds(t)^2\) where \(ds(t)^2\) is a homogeneous metric on \(SU(3)/S^1\) which depends on a parameter \(t\). Looking for metrics with \(Spin(7)\) holonomy the authors derive ordinary differential equations in \(t\) for parameters of a homogeneous metric \(ds(t)^2\) and study their solutions which in general lead to degenerations of metrics \(ds(t)^2\) for finite \(t\). This results in an existence of orbifold singularities on eight-dimensional manifolds which locally looks as the products \({\mathbb R} \times SU(3)/S^1\) but for some special choice of \(S^1\)-subgroup in \(SU(3)\) such a procedure leads to a smooth noncompact manifold. The authors mention two recent preprints by Cvetic, Gibbons, Lü, and Pope and by Gukov and Sparks which have some overlaps with the paper.

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