On the Geometry of Classifying Spaces and Horizontal Slices

DOI10.1353/AJM.1999.0007MaRDI QIDQ4238640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhiqin Lu

Publication date 30 March 1999

Published in American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505579, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_mathematics/toc/ajm121.1.html

zbMATH Keywords

Hodge metricsholomorphic sectional curvaturemoduli spacepluriharmonic mappolarized Calabi-Yau manifoldRicci curvaturethreefold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli, classification: analytic theory; relations with modular forms (14J15) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the local properties of the moduli space of a polarized Calabi-Yau manifold. Let $U$ be a neighborhood of the moduli space. Then we know the universal covering space $V$ of $U$ is a smooth manifold. Suppose $D$ is the classifying space of a polarized Calabi-Yau manifold with the automorphism group $G$. Let $D_1$ be the symmetric space associated with $G$. Then we proved that the map from $V$ to $D_1$ induced by the period map is a pluriharmonic map. We also give a Kahler metric on $V$, which is called the Hodge metric. We proved that the Ricci curvature of the Hodge metric is negative away from zero. We also proved the non-existence of the K"ahler metric on the classifying space of a Calabi-Yau threefold which is invariant under a cocompact lattice of $G$.

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