Published April 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Hermitian Yang-Mills equations and pseudo-holomorphic bundles on nearly Kaehler and nearly Calabi-Yau twistor 6-manifolds

  • 1. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region (Russian Federation)

Description

We consider the Hermitian Yang-Mills (HYM) equations for gauge potentials on a complex vector bundle E over an almost complex manifold X6 which is the twistor space of an oriented Riemannian manifold M4. Each solution of the HYM equations on such X6 defines a pseudo-holomorphic structure on the bundle E. It is shown that the pull-back to X6 of any anti-self-dual gauge field on M4 is a solution of the HYM equations on X6. This correspondence allows us to introduce new twistor actions for bosonic and supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. As examples of X6 we consider homogeneous nearly Kaehler and nearly Calabi-Yau manifolds which are twistor spaces of S4, CP2 and B4, CB2 (real 4-ball and complex 2-ball), respectively. Various explicit examples of solutions to the HYM equations on these spaces are provided. Applications in flux compactifications of heterotic strings are briefly discussed.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.11.011

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.11.011;
arXiv
arXiv:0907.0106v2;
PII
S0550-3213(09)00606-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
828
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 594-624
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41080403
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; COMPLEX MANIFOLDS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; POTENTIALS; SPACE; SUPERSYMMETRY; VECTORS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; SYMMETRY; TENSORS

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