Harmonic metrics for the Hull–Strominger system and stability

Abstract

We investigate stability conditions related to the existence of solutions of the Hull–Strominger system with prescribed balanced class. We build on recent work by the authors, where the Hull–Strominger system is recasted using non-Hermitian Yang–Mills connections and holomorphic Courant algebroids. Our main development is a notion of harmonic metric for the Hull–Strominger system, motivated by an infinite-dimensional hyperKähler moment map and related to a numerical stability condition, which we expect to exist for families of solutions. We illustrate our theory with an infinite number of continuous families of examples on the Iwasawa manifold.