Variation of singular Kähler-Einstein metrics: Kodaira dimension zero (with an appendix by Valentino Tosatti) (Q2693152)

Summary: We study several questions involving relative Ricci-flat Kähler metrics for families of log Calabi-Yau manifolds. Our main result states that if \(p : ( X , B ) \to Y\) is a Kähler fiber space such that \(( X_y , B |_{X_y} )\) is generically klt, \( K_{X / Y} + B\) is relatively trivial and \(p_\ast ( m ( K_{X / Y} + B ) )\) is Hermitian flat for some suitable integer \(m\), then \(p\) is locally trivial. Motivated by questions in birational geometry, we investigate the regularity of the relative singular Ricci-flat Kähler metric corresponding to a family \(p : ( X , B ) \to Y\) of klt pairs \(( X_y , B_y )\) such that \(\kappa ( K_{X_y} + B_y ) = 0\). Finally, we disprove a folkore conjecture by exhibiting a one-dimensional family of elliptic curves whose relative (Ricci-)flat metric is not semipositive.