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

Presenter
March 25, 2016
Keywords:
  • algebraic geometry and GAGA
  • mathematical physics
  • complex differential geometry
  • Kahler metric
  • mirror symmetry
  • Ricci flatness
  • 4-manifolds
  • gravitational instantons
MSC:
  • 53-XX
  • 53CXX
  • 53C55
  • 53C80
  • 53Zxx
  • 14-xx
  • 14J33
  • 14J32
  • 14J28
  • 14Jxx
  • 14J30
Abstract
The Kummer construction of Kähler Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface provides the prototypical example of the formation of orbifold singularities in non-collapsing sequences of Einstein 4-manifolds. Much less is known about the structure of the singularities forming along sequences of collapsing Einstein metrics. I will describe the construction of large families of Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface collapsing to the quotient of a flat 3-torus by an involution. The collapse occurs with bounded curvature away from finitely many points. The geometry around these points is modelled by ALF gravitational instantons.