Mirror of volume functionals on manifolds with special holonomy

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) (G)-structures (53C10) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya category (53D37) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We can define the ``volume $V$ for Hermitian connections on a Hermitian complex line bundle over a Riemannian manifold $X$ , which can be considered to be the ``mirror of the standard volume for submanifolds. This is called the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action in physics. In this paper, (1) we introduce the negative gradient flow of

V

, which we call the line bundle mean curvature flow. Then, we show the short-time existence and uniqueness of this flow. When

X

is K"ahler, we relate the negative gradient of

V

to the angle function and deduce the mean curvature for Hermitian metrics on a holomorphic line bundle defined by Jacob and Yau. (2) We relate the functional

V

to a deformed Hermitian Yang--Mills (dHYM) connection, a deformed Donaldson--Thomas connection for a

G_{2}

-manifold (a

G_{2}

-dDT connection), a deformed Donaldson--Thomas connection for a

m S p i n (7)

-manifold (a

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection), which are considered to be the ``mirror of special Lagrangian, (co)associative and Cayley submanifolds, respectively. When $X$ is a compact $m S p i n (7)$ -manifold, we prove the ``mirror of the Cayley equality, which implies the following. (a) Any

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection is a global minimizer of

V

and its value is topological. (b) Any

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection is flat on a flat line bundle. (c) If

X

is a product of

S^{1}

and a compact

G_{2}

-manifold

Y

, any

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection on the pullback of the Hermitian complex line bundle over

Y

is the pullback of a

G_{2}

-dDT connection modulo closed 1-forms. We also prove analogous statements for

G_{2}

-manifolds and K"ahler manifolds of dimension 3 or 4.

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