Existence of Hermitian-Yang-Mills metrics under conifold transitions (Q1940479)

The degeneration of a sequence of Hermitian-Yang-Mills metrics with respect to a sequence of balanced metrics on a Calabi-Yau tree-fold \(X\) that degenerates to the balanced metric of \textit{J. Fu} et al. [J. Differ. Geom. 90, No. 1, 81--129 (2012; Zbl 1264.32020)] on the complement of finitely many \((-1,-1)\)-curves in \(X\), is studied. Under some assumptions the existence of such metrics is shown over a family of three-folds \(X_t\) with trivial canonical bundles. These three-folds \(X_t\) are obtained by performing transitions on \(X\). It is known [\textit{M. Reid}, Math. Ann. 278, 329--334 (1987; Zbl 0649.14021)] that the moduli spaces of all Calabi-Yau tree-folds can be connected by means of taking birational transformations and smoothings on the Calabi-Yau tree-folds. This idea, as ``Reid's Fantasy'', was checked for a huge number of examples in [\textit{P. Candelas} et al., in: Superstrings '89. Proceedings of the Spring School held in Trieste, Italy, 1989. Singapore: World Scientific. 366--421 (1990; Zbl 0985.32502)]; \textit{T.-M. Chiang} et al., Nucl. Phys., B, Proc. Suppl. 46, 82--95 (1996; Zbl 0957.32502)].