Beglund-Hübsch transpose and Einstein metrics on rational homology 7-spheres

Jaime Cuadros Valle, Ralph R. Gomez, Joe Lope Vicente

Published 2023-11-27Version 1

We show that links of invertible polynomials coming from the Johnson and Koll\'ar list of K\"ahler-Einstein 3-folds that are rational homology 7-spheres remain rational homology 7-spheres under the so-called Berglund-H\"ubsch (BH) transpose rule coming from classical mirror symmetry constructions. Actually, the BH-transpose rule produces twins, that is, links with same degree, Milnor number and homology H_3, with the exception of iterated Thom-Sebastiani sums of singularities of chain and cycle type, where the torsion and the Milnor number may vary. This BH-transpose rule not only gives a framework to better understand the existence of SasakiEinstein twins but also gives a mechanism for producing new examples of Sasaki-Einstein twins in the rational homology 7 -sphere setting. We also give reasonable conditions for a Sasaki-Einstein rational homology 7-sphere to remain Sasaki-Einstein under the BH-transpose rule. In particular, we found 75 new examples of Sasaki-Einstein rational homology 7-spheres arising as links of not well-formed hypersurface singularities.