Asymptotic curvature of moduli spaces for Calabi-Yau threefolds

Abstract: Motivated by the classical statements of Mirror Symmetry, we study certain Kahler metrics on the complexified Kahler cone of a Calabi-Yau threefold, conjecturally corresponding to approximations to the Weil-Petersson metric near large complex structure limit for the mirror. In particular, the naturally defined Riemannian metric (defined via cup-product) on a level set of the Kahler cone is seen to be analogous to a slice of the Weil-Petersson metric near large complex limit. This enables us to give counterexamples to a conjecture of Ooguri and Vafa that the Weil-Petersson metric has non-positive scalar curvature in some neighbourhood of the large complex structure limit point.

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This paper studies the curvature properties of certain Kähler metrics on the complexified Kähler cone of a Calabi-Yau threefold. These metrics should correspond under mirror symmetry to approximations of the Weil-Petersson metric of the mirror Calabi-Yaus near a large complex structure limit. A conjecture of \textit{H. Ooguri} and \textit{C. Vafa} [Nucl. Phys., B 766, No. 1--3, 21--33 (2007; Zbl 1117.81117)] predicts that these metrics should have nonpositive scalar curvature in some neighborhood of the large complex structure limit point. The main result of this paper is the construction of many counterexamples to this conjecture, where in the limit the scalar curvature blow up to plus infinity.

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