Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli spaces of CY manifolds (Q2466704)

This paper is concerned with the volume of the moduli spaces of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds with respect to Weil-Petersson metrics. It is proved that the volume is a rational number. The proof is based on the facts that the \(L^2\) norm on the dualizing line bundle over the moduli space of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds is a good metric in the sense of \textit{D. Mumford} [Invent. Math. 42, 239--272 (1977; Zbl 0365.14012)]. In that paper, Mumford proved that Chern forms of good metric define classes of cohomology with integer coefficients on the compactified quasi-projective varieties by adding a divisor with normal crossings. Further, \textit{E. Viehweg} extended [``Quasi-projective moduli for polarized manifolds'', Ergebn. Math. 30 (1995; Zbl 0844.14004)] proved that the moduli space of Calabi--Yau manifolds is a quasi-projective variety. The proof goes as follows. First it is shown that the Weil-Petersson metric is minus the Chern form of the \(L^2\) metric on the dualizing line bundle. This fact then implies that the volumes of the Weil-Petersson metric are rational numbers. Also it is shown that the Weil-Petersson metric is a good metric, and hence all the Chern forms define integer classes of cohomologies.