Existence and uniqueness of associative submanifolds with three K3 ends

Let XX be a K3 manifold, let α1,α2,α3\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\alpha_3 be 2-2 classes on XX satisfying

α1+α2+α3=0,\alpha_1+\alpha_2+\alpha_3=0,

and let HH2(X)H\subset H^2(X) be a maximal positive subspace corresponding to a hyperkähler structure. Write viv_i for the projection of αi\alpha_i to HH, and assume that each pair (αi,H)(\alpha_i,H) is irreducible. Existence and uniqueness conjecture. There is an associative submanifold

ΠX×R3\Pi\subset X\times \mathbb{R}^3

with three ends asymptotic to Σi×R+vi\Sigma_i\times\mathbb{R}^+v_i, where Σi\Sigma_i is the complex curve representing αi\alpha_i for the complex structure defined by viv_i; moreover, Π\Pi is unique up to translations of R3\mathbb{R}^3. This conjecture predicts a canonical associative submanifold joining the three complex curves determined by the projected 2-2 classes, with uniqueness modulo the natural translation symmetry.

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Simon Donaldson and Christopher Scaduto, “Associative submanifolds and gradient cycles”, arXiv:2004.07314 (2020).

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