Calabi-Yau metrics on Kummer surfaces as a model glueing problem

zbMATH Open1341.32020arXiv1007.4218MaRDI QIDQ5265956FDOQ5265956

S. K. Donaldson

Publication date: 29 July 2015

Abstract: This is an expository paper which aims to give a simple proof of the existence of Ricci-flat metrics on certain K3 surfaces, as an illustration of general "glueing" techniques.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4218

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldEinstein metricsK3 surfacecylindrical ends

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Compact complex surfaces (32J15) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

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• Gravitational Instantons and Degenerations of Ricci-flat Metrics on the K3 Surface
• A new complete Calabi-Yau metric on \({\mathbb {C}}^3\)
• Generalized Kähler Taub-NUT metrics and two exceptional instantons
• Gravitational instantons from rational elliptic surfaces
• Geodesics on a K3 surface near the orbifold limit

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