%0 Journal Article
%T Spin(7) instantons and the Hodge Conjecture for certain abelian four-folds: a modest proposal
%A Ramadas T. Ramakrishnan
%J Mathematics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%X The Hodge Conjecture is equivalent to a statement about conditions under which a complex vector bundle on a smooth complex projective variety admits a holomorphic structure. I advertise a class of abelian four-folds due to Mumford where this approach could be tested. I construct explicit smooth vector bundles - which can in fact be constructed in terms of of smooth line bundles - whose Chern characters are given Hodge classes. An instanton connection on these vector bundles would endow them with a holomorphic structure and thus prove that these classes are algebraic. I use complex multiplication to exhibit Cayley cycles representing the given Hodge classes. I find alternate complex structures with respect to which the given bundles are holomorphic, and close with a suggestion (due to G. Tian) as to how this may possibly be put to use.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3927v1