The hyperkähler metric on the almost-Fuchsian moduli space

DOI10.4171/EMSS/30MaRDI QIDQ2187952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Trautwein

Publication date 3 June 2020

Published in EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00869

zbMATH Keywords

almost Fuchsian manifoldsholomorphic quadratic differentialshyper-Kähler geometrymoment mapTeichmüller theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

Abstract: Donaldon constructed a hyperk"ahler moduli space $mathcalM$ associated to a closed oriented surface $Sigma$ with $extrmgenus(Sigma)geq2$. This embeds naturally into the cotangent bundle $T^{\ast }mathcalT(Sigma)$ of Teichm"uller space or can be identified with the almost-Fuchsian moduli space associated to $Sigma$. The later is the moduli space of quasi-Fuchsian threefolds which contain a unique incompressible minimal surface with principal curvatures in $(-1,1)$. Donaldson outlined various remarkable properties of this moduli space for which we provide complete proofs in this paper: On the cotangent-bundle of Teichm"uller space, the hyperk"ahler structure on $mathcalM$ can be viewed as the Feix--Kaledin hyperk"ahler extension of the Weil--Petersson metric. The almost-Fuchsian moduli space embeds into the $extrmSL(2,mathbbC)$-representation variety of $Sigma$ and the hyperk"ahler structure on $mathcalM$ extends the Goldman holomorphic symplectic structure. Here the natural complex structure corresponds to the second complex structure in the first picture. Moreover, the area of the minimal surface in an almost-Fuchsian manifold provides a K"ahler potential for the hyperk"ahler metric. The various identifications are obtained using the work of Uhlenbeck on germs of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, an explicit map from $mathcalM$ to $$ found by Hodge, the simultaneous uniformization theorem of Bers, and the theory of Higgs bundles introduced by Hitchin.

Review text

Summary: In [Surv. Differ. Geom. 8, 171--189 (2003; Zbl 1078.53084)], \textit{S. K. Donaldson} constructed a hyper-Kähler moduli space \(\mathcal{M}\) associated to a closed oriented surface \(\Sigma\) with genus \((\Sigma) \geq 2\). This embeds naturally into the cotangent bundle \(T^*\mathcal{T}(\Sigma)\) of Teichmüller space or can be identified with the almost-Fuchsian moduli space associated to \(\Sigma \). The latter is the moduli space of quasi-Fuchsian threefolds which contain a unique incompressible minimal surface with principal curvatures in \((-1,1)\). Donaldson outlined various remarkable properties of this moduli space for which we provide complete proofs in this paper: On the cotangent-bundle of Teichmüller space, the hyper-Kähler structure on \(\mathcal{M}\) can be viewed as the Feix-Kaledin hyper-Kähler extension of the Weil-Petersson metric. The almost-Fuchsian moduli space embeds into the SL \((2,\mathbb{C})\)-representation variety of \(\Sigma\) and the hyper-Kähler structure on \(\mathcal{M}\) extends the Goldman holomorphic symplectic structure. Here, the natural complex structure corresponds to the second complex structure in the first picture. Moreover, the area of the minimal surface in an almost-Fuchsian manifold provides a kähler potential for the hyper-Kähler metric. The various identifications are obtained using the work of \textit{K. K. Uhlenbeck} [Ann. Math. Stud. 103, 147--168 (1983; Zbl 0529.53007)] on germs of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, an explicit map from \(\mathcal{M}\) to \(\mathcal{T}(\Sigma)\times \overline{\mathcal{T}(\Sigma)}\) found by \textit{T. W. S. Hodge} [Hyperkähler geometry and Teichmüller space. London: Imperial College (PhD Thesis) (2005)], the simultaneous uniformization theorem of \textit{L. Bers} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 66, 94--97 (1960; Zbl 0090.05101)], and the theory of Higgs bundles introduced by \textit{N. J. Hitchin} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 55, 59--126 (1987; Zbl 0634.53045)].

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