S^1-quotient of Spin(7)-structures

DOI10.1007/S10455-020-09710-ZMaRDI QIDQ2190772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Udhav Fowdar

Publication date 22 June 2020

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03962

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\)-structures\(G_2\)-structures\(S^1\)-quotientexceptional holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: If a $Spin(7)$ manifold $N^8$ admits a free $S^1$ action preserving the fundamental $4$-form then the quotient space $M^7$ is naturally endowed with a $G_2$-structure. We derive equations relating the intrinsic torsion of the $Spin(7)$-structure to that of the $G_2$-structure together with the additional data of a Higgs field and the curvature of the $S^1$-bundle; this can be interpreted as a Gibbons-Hawking-type ansatz for $Spin(7)$-structures. We focus on the three $Spin(7)$ torsion classes: torsion-free, locally conformally parallel and balanced. In particular we show that if $N$ is a $Spin(7)$ manifold then $M$ cannot have holonomy contained in $G_2$ unless $N$ is in fact a Calabi-Yau $4$-fold and $M$ is the product of a Calabi-Yau $3$-fold and an interval. We also derive a new formula for the Ricci curvature of $Spin(7)$-structures in terms of the torsion forms. We then describe this $S^1$-quotient construction in detail for the Bryant-Salamon $Spin(7)$ metric on the spinor bundle of $S^4$ and for the flat metric on $mathbb{R}^8$.

Review text

This work is concerned with the study of \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\)-structures (with torsion) which are invariant under the action of \(S^1\). Recall that \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\) is one of the two exceptional groups appearing in the Berger classification, the other one is \(G_2\). Also recall that \textit{V. Apostolov} and \textit{S. Salamon} [Commun. Math. Phys. 246, No. 1, 43--61 (2004; Zbl 1067.53039)] used the \(S^1\)-reduction of \(G_2\) with Kähler quotient, to give examples of metrics with \(G_2\) holonomy. The paper under review parallels this method in the \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\) setting. The first result is that \(G_2\)-holonomy in the \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\) setting appears only in dimension \(4\) and requires the presence of a Calabi-Yau structure. Inverting this construction, the author constructs examples of \(\mathrm{SU}(4)\)-holonomy metrics and gives a formula for the Ricci curvature of a \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\)-structure in terms of torsion.

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