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2.3. The Calabi conjecture [03EW]

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2.3. The Calabi conjecture

Among all bi-polyhedral Kähler affine structures of type (λ,ν)(\lambda,\nu) we expect to find a unique distinguished representative – the Monge-Ampère structure: in affine coordinates the metric satisfies detgi​j=c\det g_{ij}=c. Its metric completion to Σ\Sigma 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 Σ\D{\Sigma\backslash D} of type (λ,ν)(\lambda,\nu) such that the metric is Monge-Ampère: detgi​j=(Vol∂Δλ∨)−1⋅Vol∂Δν\det g_{ij}=(\operatorname{Vol}\partial\Delta^{\vee}_{\lambda})^{-1}\cdot\operatorname{Vol}\partial{\Delta_{\nu}}.

Note that the Monge-Ampère constant cc is determined from calculating the metric volume of Σ\Sigma as c⋅Vol∂Δ∨λ=c−1⋅Vol∂Δν\sqrt{c}\cdot\operatorname{Vol}\partial\Delta^{\vee}_{\lambda}=\sqrt{c^{-1}}\cdot\operatorname{Vol}\partial{\Delta_{\nu}}, where Vol\operatorname{Vol} means the affine volume of the corresponding polytopal complex. Also note that the rescaled data (ϵ−1​λ,ϵ​ν,Kα​(ϵ​yα),K^α​(ϵ−1​y^α),ϵ2​gi​j)(\epsilon^{-1}\lambda,\epsilon\nu,K_{\alpha}(\epsilon y_{\alpha}),\hat{K}_{\alpha}(\epsilon^{-1}\hat{y}_{\alpha}),\epsilon^{2}g_{ij}) provides the Monge-Ampère structure in the class [ϵ−1​λ,ϵ​ν][\epsilon^{-1}\lambda,\epsilon\nu] with the same metric on Σ\Sigma. 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 Σ\D{\Sigma\backslash D} given by a pair (Φ,Φ^)(\Phi,\hat{\Phi}).

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