On a conjecture of Candelas and de la Ossa

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2211-XMaRDI QIDQ2258013zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 2 March 2015

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4358

Calabi-Yau threefold contraction morphism Kähler metric

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We prove that the metric completion of a canonical Ricci-flat Kahler metric on the nonsingular part of a projective Calabi-Yau variety

X

with ordinary double point singularities, is a compact metric length space homeomorphic to the projective variety

X

itself. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Candelas and de la Ossa for conifold flops and transitions.

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Let \(X\) be a smooth projective Calabi-Yau threefold, \(Y\) be a normal Calabi-Yau variety with only ordinary double points as singularities and \( f:X\rightarrow Y\) be a small contraction morphism. If \(\mathcal{L}_{0}\) is an ample line bundle over \(Y\) and \(\alpha \) is a Kähler class on \(X\), then by a familiar theorem by Yau, there is a unique Ricci-flat Kähler metric \(g\left( t\right) =c_{1}\left( \alpha +t\left[ \pi ^{\ast }\mathcal{L} _{0}\right] \right) \,,\) \thinspace \(t\in (0,1]\). Then there exists a unique singular Ricci-flat metric \(g_{Y}\) which is a smooth Kähler metric on the non-singular part \(Y_{\mathrm{reg}}\) of \(Y\), see [\textit{P. Eyssidieux} et al., J. Am. Math. Soc. 22, No. 3, 607--639 (2009; Zbl 1215.32017)]. The main result states that the metric completion of \(\left( Y_{\mathrm{reg}},g_{Y}\right) \) is a metric space with intrinsic metric \(d_{Y} \) homeomorphic to the projective variety \(Y\) itself, that is, the metric completion of \(\left( Y_{\mathrm{reg}},g_{Y}\right) \) is \(\left( Y,d_{Y}\right) \). In addition, the author proves that \(\left( X,g\left( t\right) \right) \) Gromov-Hausdorff converges to \(\left( Y,d_{Y}\right) \) as \(t\rightarrow 0+\). As a corollary (see Corollary 1.2), the author proves a conjecture of \textit{P. Candelas} and \textit{X. de la Ossa} [``Comments on conifolds, Nuclear Phys. B 342 , no. 1, 246--268 (1990)].

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