The Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics sponsored a G2 working group at the Aspen Center for Physics from August 7 through August 25, 2017. The working group was attended by Andreas Braun (Oxford), Michele Del Zotto (SCGP), Jim Halverson (Northeastern), Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala), Dave Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), and Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford).
The topics discussed included:
- gauge theory on G2 manifolds and G2 compactifications of the heterotic string
- singular fibers of SYZ fibrations of Calabi-Yau threefolds and what they might correspond to in K3-fibered G2 manifolds
- the structure of the gauge degrees of freedom in G2 compactifications, including BPS equations and Higgs bundle as function of the associative three-manifold base
- G2 compactifications of M-theory possesing both F-theory and heterotic duals, in particular the various moduli of such models including the role of the D3-branes from the F-theory realization.
Research papers which result from this activity will be included in the publication list on this website. Stay tuned!
