5.2 Higher regularity in the generic region
Once we know the subsequential limit satisfies the real MA equation, then by the local regularity theory surveyed in section 2.6,
Corollary 5.4.
(Regularity of real MA solution)
Inside , let be the set of strictly convex points of , then , and the complement of is a closed subset of Hausdorff -measure zero. In particular is path connected, and is open and dense in .
Remark 5.5.
In dimension 2, the local regularity theory implies that , namely the real MA solution is smooth wherever the affine structure is defined. The same might hold in any higher dimension, although this cannot be concluded by local regularity results alone (cf. Remark 2.15).
We now proceed to a very explicit coordinate version of higher order estimates for the local CY potentials, by transferring regularity from the real MA equation to the complex MA equation.
Let , then (resp. the appropriate has -bound on some coordinate ball contained in a shrinked face (resp. ). For clarity we focus on the face case. The radius and the -bound depend on the choice of , but are uniform for in any fixed compact subset of . We identify with its pullback to .
The local CY potential on satisfies
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along the subsequence. We may regard
as an open subset of . On the universal cover of , we use the natural coordinates for .
Now satisfies the complex MA equation (cf. (20)(14))
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By the holomorphic volume form formula (12),
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where the term in fact has exponentially small bounds in coordinates; the higher order bound uses that is holomorphic. On the other hand by the calculation in section 5.1, the pullback of satisfies
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To summarize, the deviation of RHS is negligible and the deviation between and is small in -norm. Applying Savin’s Thm. 2.14,
Theorem 5.6.
(Smooth convergence in generic regions)
As along the subsequence, assume the coordinate ball , then on the region , we have the following higher regularity estimates with respect to the -norm in the coordinates.
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In the face type region case
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In the star type region case, for ,
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The convergence rate is uniform for on any fixed compact subset of .
The intuition is that in the generic regular locus in the toric part of , the local CY potentials converge in some sense.
Notation.
For every compact , let denote the union of the regions for ; the convergence rates will be uniform on . Notice that
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so by taking a compact exhaustion of , we may assume occupies a percentage of the total measure arbitrarily close to 1.
Remark 5.7.
If one can show that the limiting real MA metric is unique, then there will be no need to pass to a subsequence.
Next we discuss CY metrics in .
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In the face type region case, up to -small error in the coordinates,
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hence the CY metrics is up to -small error
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Likewise in the star type region case, up to small error in the coordinates,
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Notice in such local coordinates, the rescaled log map gives a local -fibration. The metric associated to is a semiflat metric, namely a -invariant metric which is flat when restricted to any -fibre. Thus (32)(33) assert that the Calabi-Yau metrics are -approximated by semiflat metrics in the regular regions.
Corollary 5.8.
On the sectional curvature has a uniform bound , and the injectivity radius satisfies , with constants depending on .