We study 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on curved manifolds that admit Killing spinors. If the manifold admits at least two Killing spinors (Sasaki-Einstein manifolds) we are able to rewrite the supersymmetric theory in terms of a cohomological complex. In principle this cohomological complex makes sense for any K-contact manifold. For the case of toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds we derive explicitly the perturbative part of the partition function and speculate about the non-perturbative part. We also briefly discuss the case of 3-Sasaki manifolds and suggest a plausible form for the full non-perturbative answer.

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We extend the analysis of arXiv:1009.2624, which constructed the non-linear realisation of the semi-direct product of E 11 and the l 1 representation at level zero, to level one. Thus we add to the previously considered N S ⊗ N S fields those of the R ⊗ R sector.

In this paper we study 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills on a specific 3-Sasakian manifold that is the total space of an SO(3)-bundle over CP 2 . The novelty of this example is that the manifold is not a toric Sasaki-Einstein manifold. The hyperkähler cone of this manifold is a Swann bundle with hypertoric symmetry and this allows us to calculate the perturbative part of the partition function of the theory. The result is also verified by an index calculation. We also discuss a factorisation of this result and compare it with analogous results for S 7 .

We study 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on 3-Sasakian manifolds. For manifolds whose hyper-Kähler cones are hypertoric we derive the perturbative part of the partition function. The answer involves a special function that counts integer lattice points in a rational convex polyhedral cone determined by hypertoric data. This also gives a more geometric structure to previous enumeration results of holomorphic functions in the literature. Based on physics intuition, we provide a factorisation result for such functions. The full proof of this factorisation using index calculations will be detailed in a forthcoming paper.