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Hans-Joachim Hein

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arXiv2014

Asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau manifolds, I

This is the first part in a two-part series on complete Calabi-Yau manifolds asymptotic to Riemannian cones at infinity. We begin by proving general existence and uniqueness results. The uniqueness part relaxes the decay condition $O(r^{-n-ε})$ needed in earlier work to $O(r^{-ε})$, relying on some new ideas about harmonic functions. We then look at a few examples: (1) Crepant resolutions of cones. This includes a new class of Ricci-flat small resolutions associated with flag manifolds. (2) Affine deformations of cones. One focus here is the question of the precise rate of decay of the metric to its tangent cone. We prove that the optimal rate for the Stenzel metric on $T^*S^n$ is $-2\frac{n}{n-1}$.

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arXiv2012

New logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and an ε-regularity theorem for the Ricci flow

In this note we prove a new ε-regularity theorem for the Ricci flow. Let (M^n,g(t)) with t\in [-T,0] be a Ricci flow and H_{x} the conjugate heat kernel centered at a point (x,0) in the final time slice. Substituting H_{x} into Perelman's W-functional produces a monotone function W_{x}(s) of s \in [-T,0], the pointed entropy, with W_{x}(s) <= 0, and W_{x}(s) = 0 iff (M,g(t)) is isometric to the trivial flow on R^n. Our main theorem asserts the following: There exists an ε>0, depending only on T and on lower scalar curvature and μ-entropy bounds for (M,g(-T)), such that W_{x_0}(s) > -εimplies |Rm|< r^{-2} on P_{εr}(x,0), where r^2 = |s| and P_r(x,t) \equiv B_r(x,t)\times (t-r^2,t] is the parabolic ball. The main technical challenge of the theorem is to prove an effective Lipschitz bound in x for the s-average of W_x(s). To accomplish this, we require a new log-Sobolev inequality. It is well known by Perelman that the metric measure spaces (M,g(t),dv_{g(t)}) satisfy a log-Sobolev; however we prove that this is also true for the conjugate heat kernel weighted spaces (M,g(t),H_{x}(-,t)\,dv_{g(t)}). Our log-Sobolev constants for these weighted spaces are in fact universal and sharp. The weighted log-Sobolev has other consequences as well, including an average Gaussian upper bound on the conjugate heat kernel that only depends on a two-sided scalar curvature bound.

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arXiv2010

Complete Calabi-Yau metrics from P^2 # 9 \bar P^2

Let $X$ denote the complex projective plane, blown up at the nine base points of a pencil of cubics, and let $D$ be any fiber of the resulting elliptic fibration on $X$. Using ansatz metrics inspired by work of Gross-Wilson and a PDE method due to Tian-Yau, we prove that $X \setminus D$ admits complete Ricci-flat Kähler metrics in most de Rham cohomology classes. If $D$ is smooth, the metrics converge to split flat cylinders $\R^+ \times S^1 \times D$ at an exponential rate. In this case, we also obtain a partial uniqueness result and a local description of the Einstein moduli space, which contains cylindrical metrics whose cross-section does not split off a circle. If $D$ is singular but of finite monodromy, they converge at least quadratically to flat $T^2$-submersions over flat 2-dimensional cones which need not be quotients of $\R^2$. If $D$ is singular of infinite monodromy, their volume growth rates are 4/3 and 2 for the Kodaira types ${\rm I}_b$ and ${{\rm I}_b}^*$, their injectivity radii decay like $r^{-1/3}$ and $(\log r)^{-1/2}$, and their curvature tensors decay like $r^{-2}$ and $r^{-2}(\log r)^{-1}$. In particular, the ${\rm I}_b$ examples show that the curvature estimate from Cheeger-Tian \cite{ct-einstein} cannot be improved in general.

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