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Harmonic 1-forms on real loci of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Michael R. Douglas, Daniel Platt, Yidi Qi, Rodrigo Barbosa
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We numerically study whether there exist nowhere vanishing harmonic 1-forms on the real locus of some carefully constructed examples of Calabi-Yau manifolds, which would then give rise to potentially new examples of G₂-manifolds and an explicit description of their metrics. We do this in two steps: first, we use a neural network to compute an approximate Calabi-Yau metric on each manifold. Second, we use another neural network to compute an approximately harmonic 1-form with respect to the approximate metric, and then inspect the found solution. On two manifolds existence of a nowhere vanishing harmonic 1-form can be ruled out using differential geometry. The real locus of a third manifold is diffeomorphic to S¹ ×S², and our numerics suggest that when the Calabi-Yau metric is close to a singular limit, then it admits a nowhere vanishing harmonic 1-form. We explain how such an approximate solution could potentially be used in a numerically verified proof for the fact that our example manifold must admit a nowhere vanishing harmonic 1-form.
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