Oxidation of self-duality to 12 dimensions and beyond

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-1996-YMaRDI QIDQ2249753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chandrashekar Devchand

Publication date 3 July 2014

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6270

zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills equations\(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\) holonomy\(\mathrm G_2\) holonomysextonionsYang-Mills curvaturecomplex Kähler threefold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: Using (partial) curvature flows and the transitive action of subgroups of O(d,Z) on the indices {1,...,d} of the components of the Yang-Mills curvature in an orthonormal basis, we obtain a nested system of equations in successively higher dimensions d, each implying the Yang-Mills equations on d-dimensional Riemannian manifolds possessing special geometric structures. This `matryoshka' of self-duality equations contains the familiar self-duality equations on Riemannian 4-folds as well as their generalisations on complex K"ahler 3-folds and on 7- and 8-dimensional manifolds with G_2 and Spin(7) holonomy. The matryoshka allows enlargement (`oxidation') to a remarkable system in 12 dimensions invariant under Sp(3). There are hints that the underlying geometry is related to the sextonions, a six-dimensional algebra between the quaternions and octonions.

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