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The Fu-Yau equation with negative slope parameter

Complex Variables 2017-10-11 v3 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry

Abstract

The Fu-Yau equation is an equation introduced by J. Fu and S.T. Yau as a generalization to arbitrary dimensions of an ansatz for the Strominger system. As in the Strominger system, it depends on a slope parameter α\alpha'. The equation was solved in dimension 22 by Fu and Yau in two successive papers for α>0\alpha'>0, and for α<0\alpha'<0. In the present paper, we solve the Fu-Yau equation in arbitrary dimension for α<0\alpha'<0. To our knowledge, these are the first non-trivial solutions of the Fu-Yau equation in any dimension strictly greater than 22.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.08838,
  title  = {The Fu-Yau equation with negative slope parameter},
  author = {Duong H. Phong and Sebastien Picard and Xiangwen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08838},
  year   = {2017}
}

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30 pages, final version, to appear in Invent. Math

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