Mirror of volume functionals on manifolds with special holonomy

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108515zbMATH Open1505.53064arXiv2103.13863OpenAlexW3137397313MaRDI QIDQ2155198FDOQ2155198

Publication date: 15 July 2022

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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