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Resolutions of non-regular Ricci-flat Kahler cones

Differential Geometry 2009-07-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present explicit constructions of complete Ricci-flat Kahler metrics that are asymptotic to cones over non-regular Sasaki-Einstein manifolds. The metrics are constructed from a complete Kahler-Einstein manifold (V,g_V) of positive Ricci curvature and admit a Hamiltonian two-form of order two. We obtain Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on the total spaces of (i) holomorphic C^2/Z_p orbifold fibrations over V, (ii) holomorphic orbifold fibrations over weighted projective spaces WCP^1, with generic fibres being the canonical complex cone over V, and (iii) the canonical orbifold line bundle over a family of Fano orbifolds. As special cases, we also obtain smooth complete Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on the total spaces of (a) rank two holomorphic vector bundles over V, and (b) the canonical line bundle over a family of geometrically ruled Fano manifolds with base V. When V=CP^1 our results give Ricci-flat Kahler orbifold metrics on various toric partial resolutions of the cone over the Sasaki-Einstein manifolds Y^{p,q}.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1674,
  title  = {Resolutions of non-regular Ricci-flat Kahler cones},
  author = {Dario Martelli and James Sparks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1674},
  year   = {2009}
}

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41 pages, 1 figure, v2: cosmetic changes to some equations

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