A new complete Calabi-Yau metric on \({\mathbb {C}}^3\) (Q2419713)

Motivated by the works of \textit{S. K. Donaldson} [Advanced Lectures in Mathematics (ALM) 21, 109--118 (2012; Zbl 1341.32020)] and \textit{M. Gross} and \textit{P. M. H. Wilson} [J. Differ. Geom. 55, No. 3, 475--546 (2000; Zbl 1027.32021)] on collapsing Calabi-Yau $3$-folds with a Lefschetz K$3$ fibration, the author constructs a complete Calabi-Yau metric on $\mathbb{C}^3$ with maximal volume growth, which in the appropriate scale is expected to model the collapsing metric near the nodal point. This new Calabi-Yau metric has singular tangent cone at infinity $\mathbb{C}^2/\mathbb{Z}^2 \times \mathbb{C}$, and its Riemannian geometry has certain non-standard features near the singularity of the tangent cone, which are more typical of adiabatic limit problems. The proof uses an existence result in [\textit{H. J. Hein}, On gravitational instantons. New Jersey: Princeton University (PhD Thesis) (2010)] to perturb an asymptotic approximate solution into an actual solution, and the main difficulty lies in correcting the slowly decaying error terms.