English

Kobayashi pseudometric on hyperkahler manifolds

Algebraic Geometry 2021-04-02 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The Kobayashi pseudometric on a complex manifold is the maximal pseudometric such that any holomorphic map from the Poincar\'e disk to the manifold is distance-decreasing. Kobayashi has conjectured that this pseudometric vanishes on Calabi-Yau manifolds. Using ergodicity of complex structures, we prove this conjecture for any hyperk\"ahler manifold that admits a deformation with two Lagrangian fibrations and whose Picard rank is not maximal. The Strominger-Yau-Zaslow (SYZ) conjecture claims that parabolic nef line bundles on hyperk\"ahler manifolds are semi-ample. We prove that the Kobayashi pseudometric vanishes for any hyperk\"ahler manifold with b213b_2\geq 13 if the SYZ conjecture holds for all its deformations. This proves the Kobayashi conjecture for all K3 surfaces and their Hilbert schemes.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.5667,
  title  = {Kobayashi pseudometric on hyperkahler manifolds},
  author = {Ljudmila Kamenova and Steven Lu and Misha Verbitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5667},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v3: 19 pages, some proofs updated, a few corrections and references added

R2 v1 2026-06-22T01:15:13.945Z