ALF gravitational instantons and collapsing Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface
Presenter
March 25, 2016
Keywords:
- algebraic geometry and GAGA
- mathematical physics
- complex differential geometry
- Kahler metric
- mirror symmetry
- Ricci flatness
- 4-manifolds
- gravitational instantons
MSC:
- 53-XX
- 53CXX
- 53C55
- 53C80
- 53Zxx
- 14-xx
- 14J33
- 14J32
- 14J28
- 14Jxx
- 14J30
Abstract
The Kummer construction of Kähler Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface provides the prototypical example of the formation of orbifold singularities in non-collapsing sequences of Einstein 4-manifolds. Much less is known about the structure of the singularities forming along sequences of collapsing Einstein metrics. I will describe the construction of large families of Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface collapsing to the quotient of a flat 3-torus by an involution. The collapse occurs with bounded curvature away from finitely many points. The geometry around these points is modelled by ALF gravitational instantons.