The paper explores the Thomas-Yau conjecture using holomorphic curves and Floer theory.
problem Proving the Thomas-Yau conjecture in the context of Lagrangian branes.
method Using holomorphic curves and Floer theory to construct and analyze bordism currents and moduli spaces.
result Established Floer theoretic obstructions and variational framework for finding special Lagrangians.
New proofs of Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem using geodesic rays.
problem Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem implications
method Geodesic rays of Hermitian metrics
result New proofs of the theorem
Proves a conjecture for Calabi-Yau manifolds.
problem Maximal degeneration of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
method Valuative independence condition for section ring.
result Metric SYZ conjecture proven.
Proves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for toric manifolds and bundles.
problem Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for toric manifolds and bundles.
method Filtration approach to prove the conjecture.
result Proves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for toric manifolds and bundles.
The paper solves a uniform Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for toric manifolds.
problem Uniform Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for polarized toric manifolds.
method Combinatorial sufficient condition for relative K-polystability.
result Uniform relative K-polystability condition established.
Constructs special Lagrangian submanifolds in Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
problem Constructing special Lagrangian submanifolds in collapsing Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
method Constructs special Lagrangian submanifolds in collapsing Calabi-Yau 3-folds fibered by K3 surfaces.
result Special Lagrangian submanifolds shrink to 1-dimensional graphs in the base as the 3-folds collapse.
The abstract discusses special Lagrangians and their flow, proving conjectures and observing related phenomena.
problem Existence and long-time existence of special Lagrangian representatives and Lagrangian mean curvature flow.
method Gibbons-Hawking ansatz, circle-invariant hyperkaehler 4-manifolds, Calabi-Yau 2-folds, Thomas conjecture, Thomas-Yau conjecture.
result Proves versions of the Thomas conjecture and Thomas-Yau conjecture.
Compact method proves Brown-York mass positivity and connects to major conjectures.
problem Proving positivity of Brown-York's mass and its connections to conjectures.
method Compact approach to proving mass positivity and exploring connections.
result Proved the positivity of Brown-York's mass and its relation to conjectures.
Study of Calabi-Yau metrics on converging manifolds, resolving conjectures.
problem Understanding Calabi-Yau metrics on converging manifolds.
method Analysis of Gromov-Hausdorff limits of metrics on Calabi-Yau fibrations.
result Gromov-Hausdorff limit is homeomorphic to the base of the fibration and discriminant locus has high Hausdorff codimension.
Yau's uniformization conjecture states: a complete noncompact Kähler manifold with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature is biholomorphic to $\ce^n$. The Kähler-Ricci flow has provided a powerful tool in understanding the conjecture, and has been used to verify the conjecture in several important cases. In this ar…
Effective Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for spherical varieties.
problem Finding effective K-stability criteria for spherical varieties.
method Formulated an effective variant of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture and reviewed effective K-stability criteria for spherical varieties.
result Effective K-stability criteria can be computed given combinatorial data.
Study explores unstable 3-forms on Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
problem Understanding degenerations of Calabi-Yau 3-folds via 3-forms.
method Investigates geometries of 3-forms on symplectic 6-manifolds.
result Unstable 3-forms reveal rich geometric properties related to SYZ conjecture.
Solves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for smooth projective varieties.
problem Uniform K-stability and existence of cscK metrics.
method Special Fujita approximations and regularization of entropy functional.
result Uniformly K-stable polarized smooth projective varieties admit cscK metrics.
Paper confirms Yau's conjecture about sphere eigenvalues.
problem Yau's conjecture on eigenvalues of minimal hypersurfaces.
method Constructing a minimizing sequence in Sobolev space, using variational principle.
result First non-zero eigenvalue equals hypersurface dimension.
Survey on metric SYZ conjecture and non-archimedean geometry.
problem Existence of special Lagrangian fibrations on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
method Pluripotential theory and non-archimedean geometry.
result Subtleties and open questions in the conjectural picture.
Paper proves solvability condition for complex equation on special submanifolds.
problem Solvability condition for supercritical deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation.
method Used integrals on subvarieties to provide necessary and sufficient condition.
result Confirms mirror version of Thomas-Yau conjecture about special Lagrangian submanifolds.
A well known conjecture of Yau states that the first eigenvalue of every closed minimal hypersurface Mn in the unit sphere Sn+1(1) is just its dimension n. The present paper shows that Yau conjecture is true for minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces. Moreover, the more fascinating result of this paper is that t…
This is a review of old and new results and methods related to the Yau conjecture on the zero set of Laplace eigenfunctions. The review accompanies two lectures given at the conference CDM 2018. We discuss the works of Donnelly and Fefferman including their solution of the conjecture in the case of real-analytic Rieman…
We show that a compact Kahler manifold with nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature has nef canonical bundle. If the holomorphic sectional curvature is negative then it follows that the canonical bundle is ample, confirming a conjecture of Yau. The key ingredient is the recent solution of this conjecture in the pro…
In this paper we will prove the Calabi-Yau conjectures for embedded surfaces. In fact, we will prove considerably more. The Calabi-Yau conjectures about surfaces date back to the 1960s. Much work has been done on them over the past four decades. In particular, examples of Jorge-Xavier from 1980 and Nadirashvili from 19…
Estimates symplectic Calabi-Yau equation using Cheng-Yau method.
problem Estimating solutions to the Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic 4-manifolds.
method Applies a Cheng-Yau type estimate in the symplectic setting.
result Proves an a priori estimate for the symplectic Calabi-Yau equation.
Let Mn be a complete noncompact Kähler manifold with nonnegative bisectional curvature and maximal volume growth, we prove that M is biholomorphic to Cn. This confirms Yau's uniformization conjecture when M has maximal volume growth.
Paper proves uniqueness of special Lagrangian pair in Calabi-Yau 3-fold.
problem Existence and uniqueness of special Lagrangian pair of pants in Calabi-Yau 3-fold.
method Proves uniqueness of a special Lagrangian pair of pants with three asymptotically cylindrical ends.
result No other special Lagrangian pair satisfies the conjecture.
Proves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for cohomogeneity one manifolds.
problem Proves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for a specific class of manifolds.
method Uses holomorphic actions of compact Lie groups and combinatorial conditions.
result Equivalence of K-uniform stability and K-stability for spherical varieties.
The paper explores CMC hypersurfaces in spheres, verifying Yau's conjecture.
problem Exploring the space of CMC hypersurfaces in spheres.
method Description and verification of CMC hypersurfaces, focusing on H=0 cases. result Verification of Yau's conjecture for minimal hypersurfaces in spheres.
The paper proves stability of minimal embeddings in spheres and relates it to Yau's conjecture.
problem Stability of minimal embeddings in spheres and Yau's conjecture.
method Analyzes stability index and solves differential equation to relate to Yau's conjecture.
result Stability index of minimal hypersurfaces is at least n^2+4n+3 and Yau's conjecture holds under specific conditions.
The paper refines the stability index for a specific minimal hypersurface and verifies Yau's conjecture.
problem Stability of minimal hypersurfaces in spheres and eigenvalue multiplicity.
method Analytical and numerical methods to study eigenvalues and stability indices.
result The multiplicity of the eigenvalue for the Carlotto-Schulz minimal embedding is at least 2n+1+n^2.
New obstruction found for Hull-Strominger system solutions.
problem Existence of solutions to the Hull-Strominger system.
method Construction of Hermitian-Einstein metric on string algebroid.
result Definition of Futaki invariants obstructing solutions.
This article surveys the development of the SYZ conjecture since it was proposed by Strominger, Yau and Zaslow in their famous 1996 paper, and discusses how it has been leading us to a thorough understanding of the geometry underlying mirror symmetry.
Establishes Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for weighted metrics.
problem Constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics on polarized projective manifolds.
method Extends Chi Li's work to weighted case, uses a priori estimates and slope formulas.
result Proves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for weighted extremal Kähler metrics.
Proves SYZ conjecture for certain toric Fano hypersurfaces.
problem Proving the metric SYZ conjecture for specific Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces.
method Solving a variational problem related to the real Monge-Ampère equation on polytopes.
result Minimizer of the variational problem interpreted as a global solution to the real Monge-Ampère equation.
Study proves Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for generalized Kähler-Ricci solitons.
problem Proving Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for generalized Kähler-Ricci solitons.
method Analyzing Monge-Ampère equations corresponding to generalized and twisted Kähler-Ricci g-solitons, proving stability conditions.
result Existence of solutions is equivalent to equivariantly uniform Θ-twisted g-Ding-stability.
Sharp diameter bounds for Calabi-Yau degenerations proved.
problem Bounding the diameter of Calabi-Yau metrics during degeneration.
method Sharp upper and lower bounds derived for Ricci-flat Kahler metrics.
result Conjecture confirmed by obtaining precise diameter bounds.
The Wu-Yau theorem is verified for negative curvature, and new examples of Kähler-Einstein metrics are found.
problem The Wu-Yau theorem and its positive analog.
method Examples and conjectures to verify the Wu-Yau theorem and its positive analog.
result New examples of Kähler-Einstein metrics without negative holomorphic sectional curvature.
In this paper we state an analog of Calabi's conjecture proved by Yau. The difference with the classical case is that we propose deformation of the complex structure, whereas the complex Monge--Ampère equation describes deformation of the Kähler (symplectic) structure.
Derives formulas for Monge-Ampère measures and reduces complex conjectures to simpler existence problems.
problem Complex Monge-Ampère measures and their applications in algebraic geometry.
method Derives formulas and reduces conjectures to simpler existence problems.
result Reduces uniform Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture to existence of approximate decompositions.
The paper disproves the properness conjecture for higher-dimensional minimal hypersurfaces.
problem Properness of complete minimal hypersurfaces in higher dimensions.
method Chord-arc estimates and gluing techniques.
result Construction of a complete, improperly embedded minimal hypersurface in Rn+1 for every n≥3. Proves almost flat spin^c manifolds bound compact manifolds.
problem Proving almost flat spin^c manifolds bound compact manifolds.
method Long-standing conjecture of Farrell--Zdravkovska and S. T. Yau settled.
result Every almost flat spin^c manifold bounds a compact orientable manifold.
In this essay we aim to explore the Geometric aspects of the Calabi Conjecture and highlight the techniques of nonlinear Elliptic PDE theory used by S.T. Yau [SY] in obtaining a solution to the problem. Yau proves the existence of a Geometric structure using differential equations, giving importance to the idea that de…
This paper gives a leisurely introduction to Calabi-Yau manifolds and special Lagrangian submanifolds from the differential geometric point of view, followed by a survey of recent results on singularities of special Lagrangian submanifolds, and their application to the SYZ Conjecture. It is aimed at graduate students i…
We study the Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic manifolds. We show that Donaldson's conjecture on estimates for this equation in terms of a taming symplectic form can be reduced to an integral estimate of a scalar potential function. Under a positive curvature condition, we show that the conjecture holds.
Authors discuss complex and non-Archimedean geometry, proving a conjecture.
problem Proving a version of the Yau--Tian--Donaldson conjecture for Kähler metrics.
method Relation between complex, analytic, and non-Archimedean geometry.
result Sketch of proof for Yau--Tian--Donaldson conjecture.
In this paper we give a construction of Lagrangian torus fibration for Calabi-Yau hypersurface in toric variety via the method of gradient flow. Using our construction of Lagrangian torus fibration, we are able to prove the symplectic topological version of SYZ mirror conjecture for generic Calabi-Yau hypersurface in t…
New nonlocal minimal surfaces on manifolds, proving Yau's conjecture.
problem Proving Yau's conjecture for nonlocal minimal surfaces.
method Introducing nonlocal minimal surfaces and applying min-max variational methods.
result Construction of infinitely many nonlocal s-minimal surfaces on closed manifolds. We prove a case of the conjecture of Douglas, Reinbacher and Yau about the existence of stable vector bundles with prescribed Chern classes on a Calabi-Yau threefold. For this purpose we prove the existence of certain stable vector bundle extensions over elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds.
Motivated by Strominger-Yau-Zaslow's mirror symmetry proposal and Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry conjecture, we study mirror phenomena (in A-model) of certain results from Donaldson-Thomas theory for Calabi-Yau 4-folds.
This survey was written for the Current Developments in Mathematics conference, 2012, and is an updating of my article "The Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture: From torus fibrations to degenerations," in the Seattle 2005 proceedings. We trace progress and thinking about the SYZ conjecture since its introduction in 1996. …
Solves generalized Kähler Calabi-Yau problem on compact manifolds.
problem Calabi conjecture in generalized Kähler geometry.
method New local deformation result, Bismut Ricci curvature transgression formula, generalized Kähler-Ricci flow.
result Global existence and convergence of flow for initial data in generalized Kähler class of Kähler Calabi-Yau structure.