Hitchin's equations and M-theory phenomenology

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.02.014zbMATH Open1215.81094arXiv0905.1968OpenAlexW2084095329MaRDI QIDQ538090FDOQ538090

Authors: Tony Pantev, Martijn P. Wijnholt 

Publication date: 23 May 2011

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Phenomenological compactifications of M-theory involve 7-manifolds with G_2 holonomy and various singularities. Here we study local geometries with such singularities, by thinking of them as compactifications of 7d supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a three-manifold Q_3. We give a general discussion of compactifications of 7d Yang-Mills theory in terms of Higgs bundles on Q_3. We show they can be constructed using spectral covers, which are Lagrangian branes with a flat connection in the cotangent bundle T^*Q_3. We explain the dictionary with ALE fibrations over Q_3 and conjecture that these configurations have G_2 holonomy. We further develop tools to study the low energy effective theory of such a model. We show that the naive massless spectrum is corrected by instanton effects. Taking the instanton effects into account, we find that the massless spectrum and many of the interactions can be computed with Morse theoretic methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1968

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs bundlesspectral covers\(G_{2}\) holonomy\(M\)-theory compactifications7d Yang-Mills theoryALE fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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