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

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-08-12 v1

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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@article{arxiv.1408.2205,
  title  = {A compact manifold with holonomy Spin(7) from Beauville's Calabi-Yau fourfold},
  author = {Nam-Hoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2205},
  year   = {2014}
}

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11 pages, no figures