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Classification of asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau manifolds

Differential Geometry 2022-01-05 v1

Abstract

A Riemannian cone (C,gC)(C, g_C) is by definition a warped product C=R+×LC = \mathbb{R}^+ \times L with metric gC=dr2r2gLg_C = dr^2 \oplus r^2 g_L, where (L,gL)(L,g_L) is a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. We say that CC is a Calabi-Yau cone if gCg_C is a Ricci-flat K\"ahler metric and if CC admits a gCg_C-parallel holomorphic volume form; this is equivalent to the cross-section (L,gL)(L,g_L) being a Sasaki-Einstein manifold. In this paper, we give a complete classification of all smooth complete Calabi-Yau manifolds asymptotic to some given Calabi-Yau cone at a polynomial rate at infinity. As a special case, this includes a proof of Kronheimer's classification of ALE hyper-K\"ahler 44-manifolds without twistor theory.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00870,
  title  = {Classification of asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau manifolds},
  author = {Ronan J. Conlon and Hans-Joachim Hein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00870},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

This paper supersedes our previous paper arXiv:1405.7140