ALF gravitational instantons and collapsing Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface

DOI10.4310/JDG/1557281007MaRDI QIDQ2632928zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lorenzo Foscolo

Publication date 15 May 2019

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06315, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1557281007

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational instantonEguchi-Hanson metricALF spacecollapsing hyper-Kähler metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

Abstract: We construct large families of new collapsing hyperk"ahler metrics on the K3 surface. The limit space is the quotient of a flat 3-torus by an involution. Away from finitely many exceptional points the collapse occurs with bounded curvature. There are at most 24 exceptional points where the curvature concentrates, which always contains the 8 fixed points of the involution on the 3-torus. The geometry around these points is modelled by ALF gravitational instantons: of dihedral type (Dk) for the fixed points of the involution on the 3-torus and of cyclic type (Ak) otherwise. The collapsing metrics are constructed by deforming approximately hyperk"ahler metrics obtained by gluing ALF gravitational instantons to a background (incomplete) hyperk"ahler metric arising from the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz over a punctured 3-torus. As an immediate application to submanifold geometry, we exhibit hyperk"ahler metrics on the K3 surface that admit a strictly stable minimal sphere which cannot be holomorphic with respect to any complex structure compatible with the metric.

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