Machine Learning Sasakian and G2 Topology on Contact Calabi-Yau 7-Manifolds
Daattavya Aggarwal, Yang-Hui He, Elli Heyes, and 3 more authors
Physics Letters B, Mar 2024
We propose a machine learning approach to study topological quantities related to the Sasakian and G_2-geometries of contact Calabi-Yau 7-manifolds. Specifically, we compute datasets for certain Sasakian Hodge numbers and for the Crowley-Nördstrom invariant of the natural G_2-structure of the 7-dimensional link of a weighted projective Calabi-Yau 3-fold hypersurface singularity, for 7549 of the 7555 possible \mathbbP^4(\textbfw) projective spaces. These topological quantities are then machine learnt with high performance scores, where learning the Sasakian Hodge numbers from the \mathbbP^4(\textbfw) weights alone, using both neural networks and a symbolic regressor which achieve R^2 scores of 0.969 and 0.993 respectively. Additionally, properties of the respective Gröbner bases are well-learnt, leading to a vast improvement in computation speeds which may be of independent interest. The data generation and analysis further induced novel conjectures to be raised.