{"paper":{"title":"Conjectures on counting associative 3-folds in $G_2$-manifolds","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["hep-th"],"primary_cat":"math.DG","authors_text":"Dominic Joyce","submitted_at":"2016-10-31T09:14:18Z","abstract_excerpt":"There is a strong analogy between compact, torsion-free $G_2$-manifolds $(X,\\varphi,*\\varphi)$ and Calabi-Yau 3-folds $(Y,J,g,\\omega)$. We can also generalize $(X,\\varphi,*\\varphi)$ to 'tamed almost $G_2$-manifolds' $(X,\\varphi,\\psi)$, where we compare $\\varphi$ with $\\omega$ and $\\psi$ with $J$. Associative 3-folds in $X$, a special kind of minimal submanifold, are analogous to $J$-holomorphic curves in $Y$.\n  Several areas of Symplectic Geometry -- Gromov-Witten theory, Quantum Cohomology, Lagrangian Floer cohomology, Fukaya categories -- are built using 'counts' of moduli spaces of $J$-holo"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1610.09836","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}