2.3. The Calabi conjecture [03EW]
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2.3. The Calabi conjecture
Among all bi-polyhedral Kähler affine structures of type we expect to find a unique distinguished representative – the Monge-Ampère structure: in affine coordinates the metric satisfies . Its metric completion to is supposed to be the limit of the Ricci-flat metrics on the families of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces.
Conjecture 2.2 (cf. also [KT02]).
There is a unique bi-polyhedral Kähler affine structure on of type such that the metric is Monge-Ampère: .
Note that the Monge-Ampère constant is determined from calculating the metric volume of as , where means the affine volume of the corresponding polytopal complex. Also note that the rescaled data provides the Monge-Ampère structure in the class with the same metric on . Thus the Monge-Ampère bi-PIKAS fit together into a projective family.
We will not address this conjecture any further here, rather we will be happy to start with any bi-polyhedral Kähler affine structure on given by a pair .