Instantons on conical half-flat 6-manifolds
Abstract
We present a general procedure to construct 6-dimensional manifolds with SU(3)-structure from SU(2)-structure 5-manifolds. We thereby obtain half-flat cylinders and sine-cones over 5-manifolds with Sasaki-Einstein SU(2)-structure. They are nearly Kahler in the special case of sine-cones over Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds. Both half-flat and nearly Kahler 6-manifolds are prominent in flux compactifications of string theory. Subsequently, we investigate instanton equations for connections on vector bundles over these half-flat manifolds. A suitable ansatz for gauge fields on these 6-manifolds reduces the instanton equation to a set of matrix equations. We finally present some of its solutions and discuss the instanton configurations obtained this way.
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@article{arxiv.1409.0030,
title = {Instantons on conical half-flat 6-manifolds},
author = {Severin Bunk and Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov and Marcus Sperling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0030},
year = {2015}
}
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1+32 pages, 1 figure, v2: 6 references added, v2 accepted for publication in JHEP