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Heavenly metrics, hyper-Lagrangians and Joyce structures

Differential Geometry 2024-09-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

In \cite{B3}, Bridgeland defined a geometric structure, named a Joyce structure, conjectured to exist on the space MM of stability conditions of a CY3CY_3 triangulated category. Given a non-degeneracy assumption, a feature of this structure is a complex hyper-K\"ahler metric with homothetic symmetry on the total space X=TMX = TM of the holomorphic tangent bundle. \par Generalising the isomonodromy calculation which leads to the A2A_2 Joyce structure in \cite{BM}, we obtain an explicit expression for a hyper-K\"ahler metric with homothetic symmetry via construction of the isomonodromic flows of a Schr\"odinger equation with deformed polynomial oscillator potential of odd degree 2n+12n+1. The metric is defined on a total space XX of complex dimension 4n4n and fibres over a 2n2n--dimensional manifold MM which can be identified with the unfolding of the A2nA_{2n}-singularity. The hyper-K\"ahler structure is shown to be compatible with the natural symplectic structure on MM in the sense of admitting an \textit{affine symplectic fibration} as defined in \cite{BS}. \par Separately, using the additional conditions imposed by a Joyce structure, we consider reductions of Pleba\'nski's heavenly equations that govern the hyper-K\"ahler condition. We introduce the notion of a \textit{projectable hyper-Lagrangian} foliation and show that in dimension four such a foliation of XX leads to a linearisation of the heavenly equation. The hyper-K\"ahler metrics constructed here are shown to admit such a foliation.

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@article{arxiv.2402.14352,
  title  = {Heavenly metrics, hyper-Lagrangians and Joyce structures},
  author = {Maciej Dunajski and Timothy Moy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.14352},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Final version, to appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society

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