A construction of G_2 holonomy spaces with torus symmetry

TL;DR

This paper constructs new G_2 holonomy spaces with torus symmetry by leveraging quaternionic-Kahler metrics with isometries, using hyperbolic Laplacian eigenfunctions and the Bryant-Salamon approach, with applications to M-theory and Type IIA solutions.

Contribution

It introduces explicit G_2 holonomy metrics with torus symmetry derived from quaternionic-Kahler spaces, expanding the class of known internal spaces for M-theory compactifications.

Findings

New quaternionic-Kahler metrics with two isometries are constructed.

Explicit G_2 holonomy spaces with torus symmetry are obtained.

Applications to M-theory and Type IIA solutions are demonstrated.

Abstract

In the present work the Calderbank-Pedersen description of four dimensional manifolds with self-dual Weyl tensor is used to obtain examples of quaternionic-kahler metrics with two commuting isometries. The eigenfunctions of the hyperbolic laplacian are found by use of Backglund transformations acting over solutions of the Ward monopole equation. The Bryant-Salamon construction of $G_2$ holonomy metrics arising as $R^3$ bundles over quaternionic-kahler base spaces is applied to this examples to find internal spaces of the M-theory that leads to an N=1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. Type IIA solutions will be obtained too by reduction along one of the isometries. The torus symmetry of the base spaces is extended to the total ones.