Generalized Kähler Calabi–Yau conjecture

Let (M2n,g,b,I,J)(M^{2n},g,b,I,J) be a compact generalized Kähler manifold with holomorphically trivial canonical bundles. A generalized Calabi–Yau geometry is a generalized Kähler structure determined by global closed pure spinors ψ1\psi_1 and ψ2\psi_2 for which

Φ=log(ψ1,ψ1)(ψ2,ψ2)λ,\Phi=-\log\frac{(\psi_1,\overline{\psi}_1)}{(\psi_2,\overline{\psi}_2)}\equiv\lambda,

where (,)(\cdot,\cdot) is the Mukai pairing and λ\lambda is a constant. The generalized Kähler class of (g,b,I,J)(g,b,I,J) is denoted by [(g,b,I,J)][(g,b,I,J)].

Generalized Kähler Calabi–Yau conjecture. There exists a unique generalized Calabi–Yau geometry (gCY,bCY,I,JCY)[(g,b,I,J)](g_{CY},b_{CY},I,J_{CY})\in[(g,b,I,J)], and furthermore (gCY,I)(g_{CY},I) and (gCY,JCY)(g_{CY},J_{CY}) are both Kähler Ricci-flat.

This is the generalized Kähler analogue of the Calabi conjecture, replacing a scalar potential equation by a problem in the nonlinear space of generalized Kähler structures. The paper develops generalized Kähler–Ricci-flow estimates supporting the conjecture, but the general existence and uniqueness assertion remains open.

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Vestislav Apostolov, Xin Fu, Jeffrey Streets and Yury Ustinovskiy, “The generalized Kähler Calabi-Yau problem”, arXiv:2211.09104 (2024).

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