Conically singular Cayley submanifolds III: Fibrations

Abstract

This is the third and last in a series of papers working towards the construction of non-trivial Cayley fibrations using gluing methods. In this paper we will show two stability results for Cayley fibrations with certains types of conical singularities (in particular Morse type singularities present in holomorphic fibrations of Calabi--Yau fourfolds). The first is a stability result for weak fibrations, which has minimal assumptions. Then we show stability of Cayley fibrations in the usual sense. This requires stronger geometric assumptions on the Cayley cone and the initial fibration. As an application we construct examples of Cayley fibrations on twisted connected sum $G_2$ manifolds times a circle. In particular we also obtain examples of coassociative fibrations of twisted connected sum $G_2$ manifolds, completing the longstanding programme by Kovalev.