{ "id": "1812.11867", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-12-31T16:06:22.000Z", "updated": "2018-12-31T16:06:22.000Z", "title": "$G_2$-instantons on noncompact $G_2$-manifolds: results and open problems", "authors": [ "Jason Lotay", "Goncalo Oliveira" ], "comment": "To appear in a forthcoming volume of the Fields Institute Communications, entitled \"Lectures and Surveys on G2 manifolds and related topics\"", "categories": [ "math.DG", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We survey the known existence and non-existence results for $G_2$-instantons on non-compact cohomogeneity-1 $G_2$-manifolds and their consequences, including an explicit example of a family of $G_2$-instantons where bubbling, removable singularities and conservation of energy phenomena occur. We also describe several open problems for future research.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-12-31T16:06:22.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "53C07", "53C25" ], "keywords": [ "open problems", "instantons", "noncompact", "energy phenomena occur", "explicit example" ], "tags": [ "lecture notes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }