A compact manifold with holonomy Spin(7) from Beauville's Calabi-Yau fourfold

2014/08/10 by Lee, Nam-Hoon
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.2205

Abstract

We give a new example of a compact manifold with holonomy Spin(7) from a Beauville's Calabi-Yau fourfold. Its construction is very concrete, starting with products of elliptic curves with complex multiplications --- so probably more accessible to physicists.

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