A construction of Spin(7)-instantons

DOI10.1007/S10455-012-9324-2MaRDI QIDQ694718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 13 December 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3150

Calabi-Yau orbifolds crepant resolution exceptional holonomy gauge theory Hermitian-Einstein connections

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Q99) Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18)

Abstract: Joyce constructed examples of compact eight-manifolds with holonomy Spin(7), starting with a Calabi-Yau four-orbifold with isolated singular points of a special kind. That construction can be seen as the gluing of ALE Spin(7)-manifolds to each singular point of the Calabi-Yau four-orbifold divided by an anti-holomorphic involution fixing only the singular points. On the other hand, there are higher-dimensional analogues of anti-self-dual instantons in four dimensions on Spin(7)-manifolds, which are called Spin(7)-instantons. They are minimizers of the Yang-Mills action, and the Spin(7)-instanton equation together with a gauge fixing condition forms an elliptic system. In this article, we construct Spin(7)-instantons on the examples of compact Spin(7)-manifolds above, starting with Hermitian-Einstein connections on the Calabi-Yau four-orbifolds and ALE spaces. Under some assumptions on the Hermitian-Einstein connections, we glue them together to obtain Spin(7)-instantons on the compact Spin(7)-manifolds. We also give a simple example of our construction.

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\textit{C. Lewis} [Spin(7)-instantons. Oxford: Oxford University (PhD Thesis) (1998)] constructed Spin(7)-instantons on Joyce's Spin(7)-manifolds of the first type. Tanaka constructs Spin(7)-instantons on Joyce's Spin(7)-manifolds of the second type in this paper. He starts from a Calabi-Yau 4-orbifold \(Y\) with finitely many singular points \(p_1, \dots, p_k\) along with an anti-holomorphic involution \(\sigma\) fixing only the singular points. One obtains a Spin(7)-orbifold \(Z=Y/\sigma\) with finitely many singular points \(p_1, \dots, p_k\). There are two ways of obtaining crepant resolutions of a neighborhood of each singular point in \(Y\), leading to two ALE Spin(7)-manifolds. At each singular point of \(Z\), Tanaka glues either of these manifolds. Call \(M\) the resulting space. Tanaka deforms its Spin(7)-structure into a torsion-free Spin(7)-structure, making it into a Spin(7)-manifold. At this point one can consider Spin(7)-instantons over it. Tanaka considers complex vector bundles on \(Y\) and the crepant resolutions at each singular point of \(Y\), that he equips with Hermitian-Einstein connections. The infinitesimal deformation of the Hermitian-Einstein connections on each bundle is given by a complex and an associated linear operator. Under conditions on the cohomology of these complexes and the linear operators, Tanaka constructs a Spin(7)-instanton on the vector bundle \(E\) over \(M\) resulting from gluing the bundles over \(Y\) and the crepant resolutions. The proof amounts to constructing a Spin(7)-instanton iteratively using some estimates, consequences of the linear operators on the ALE manifolds being Fredholm. It is important to note that a scaling parameter \(t \in (0,1]\) is introduced, that \(M\) depends on it, and that the result holds for small values of \(t\). An example is worked out in full.

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