Deformation theory of deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections for Spin(7)-manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00712-2MaRDI QIDQ2665600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03986

calibrated submanifold deformation theory deformed Donaldson-Thomas mirror symmetry moduli space special holonomy

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya category (53D37) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Deformations of general structures on manifolds (58H15)

Abstract: A deformed Donaldson-Thomas connection for a manifold with a

m S p i n (7)

-structure, which we call a

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection, is a Hermitian connection on a Hermitian line bundle

L

over a manifold with a

m S p i n (7)

-structure defined by fully nonlinear PDEs. It was first introduced by Lee and Leung as a mirror object of a Cayley cycle obtained by the real Fourier-Mukai transform and its alternative definition was suggested in our other paper. As the name indicates, a

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection can also be considered as an analogue of a Donaldson-Thomas connection (

m S p i n (7)

-instanton). In this paper, using our definition, we show that the moduli space

m a t h c a l M_{m S p i n (7)}

of

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connections has similar properties to these objects. That is, we show the following for an open subset

m a t h c a l M'_{m S p i n (7)} s u b s e t m a t h c a l M_{m S p i n (7)}

. (1) Deformations of elements of

m a t h c a l M'_{m S p i n (7)}

are controlled by a subcomplex of the canonical complex introduced by Reyes Carri'on by introducing a new

m S p i n (7)

-structure from the initial

m S p i n (7)

-structure and a

m S p i n (7)

-dDT connection. (2) The expected dimension of

m a t h c a l M'_{m S p i n (7)}

is finite. It is

b^{1}

, the first Betti number of the base manifold, if the initial

m S p i n (7)

-structure is torsion-free. (3) Under some mild assumptions,

m a t h c a l M'_{m S p i n (7)}

is smooth if we perturb the initial

m S p i n (7)

-structure generically. (4) The space

m a t h c a l M'_{m S p i n (7)}

admits a canonical orientation if all deformations are unobstructed.

Review text

In this article, the authors study properties of the moduli space of deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections on a \(\text{Spin}(7)\)-manifold, for their alternative notion of such Hermitian connections. Namely, these are defined as Hermitian connections \(\nabla\) on a smooth complex line bundle \(L\) over a \(\text{Spin}(7)\)-manifold \(X^8\) that satisfy the following equations for the curvature 2-form \(F_{\nabla}\) of \(\nabla\): \[ \pi _{7}^{2}\left( {{F}_{\nabla }}+\frac{1}{6}*F_{\nabla }^{3} \right)=0\text{ and }\pi _{7}^{4}\left( F_{\nabla }^{2} \right)=0, \] where \(\pi _{l}^{k}:{{\Omega }^{k}}\to \Omega _{l}^{k}\) is the projection on the subspace \(\Omega _{l}^{k}\) of \(k\)-forms corresponding to the \(l\)-dimensional irreducible representation of \(\text{Spin}(7)\), and \(*\) is the Hodge star-operator. Let \({{\mathcal{M}'}_{\text{Spin}(7)}}\) denote the subset of all deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections as defined above, such that \({*F_{\nabla }^{4}}/{24}\;-1\) is nowhere vanishing modulo the \(\text{U}(1)\)-gauge action. The infinitesimal deformation and local structure of the space \({{\mathcal{M}'}_{\text{Spin}(7)}}\) are studied, and it is shown that, assuming \({{\mathcal{M}'}_{\text{Spin}(7)}} \ne \varnothing \), this is a smooth manifold if the \(\text{Spin}(7)\)-structure \(\Phi\) is perturbed generically in some cases; it is also finite-dimensional with dimension equal to the first Betti number of \(X^8\) if \(\Phi\) is torsion-free. The authors, moreover, show that \({{\mathcal{M}'}_{\text{Spin}(7)}}\) has a canonical orientation if \({{H}^{2}}(\#_{\nabla} )=\left\{ 0 \right\}\), for any \([\nabla ]\in {{\mathcal{M}'}_{\text{Spin}(7)}}\), where \({{H}^{2}}(\#_{\nabla} )\) denotes the second cohomology of an appropriately introduced complex \(\#_{\nabla} \). The main article, as well as its extensive appendix, contain a number of non-trivial computations and identities that can have a wider applicability in the study of \(\text{Spin}(7)\)-geometry.

Recommendations

Cites work

Cited in

(7)

This page was built for publication: Deformation theory of deformed Donaldson-Thomas connections for \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\)-manifolds

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2665600)