3.3. Complex geometric perspective [042H]
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3.3. Complex geometric perspective
We now proceed to identify the complex structure on the Kähler ansatz. Our technique is to find a periodic version of the constructions made in Section 2.4 about the Taub-NUT type metric on , in the same way that the Ooguri-Vafa metric is seen as a periodic version of the Taub-NUT metric. The reader is encouraged to warm up by refering to Section 1.3 and 2.4. In this approach algebraic structures will emerge from relations between transcendental integrals of geometric origin. For the converse viewpoint which starts with the algebra, see the review Section 1.1.6.
The generalised Gibbons-Hawking construction provides the -forms , and the formula (1.14) computes their differentials. The main idea is to produce holomorphic differentials by adjusting . We define the functions
Lemma 3.7.
The series defining converge for , and are 1-periodic in . Morever if , then
Proof.
Let be fixed. The essential task is to understand the asymptotic behaviour of as becomes large. We focus on .
Using the homogeneity property of in the and variables, it is easy to see from the integral definition of that
By elementary properties of arctan
and similarly
After integration
This shows the series
is absolutely convergent if , and if morever then we have the bound
Thus the convergence of the series is equivalent to the convergence of
and similarly for and . The periodicity claim follows from standard rearranging theorems for series. The estimate on follows by combining the above discussions. ∎
Lemma 3.8.
Let be two real numbers to be determined. The holomorphic 1-forms
are closed, namely they are holomorphic differentials.
Proof.
This is the periodic version of Lemma 2.7. The terms and are added for later convenience. ∎
Lemma 3.9.
The sum . Equivalently,
Proof.
To compute the periods of the integrals , we recall from the topological description (cf. review Section 1.1.3) that there are three -cycles generating , two of which come from the -fibres, and the third comes from lifting the on the base to the total space, which involves monodromy issues.
Lemma 3.10.
For appropriate choices of , the -periods of the holomorphic differentials take values in . In particular, the holomorphic functions
are defined without multivalue issues. For a suitable choice of multiplicative normalisation on , we have the functional equation
Proof.
The periods along the generating cycles in the -fibres are straightforward:
and .
Computing the period along the other requires a special trick. As a preparatory subtle remark, the Kähler metric is not globally defined over the base due to incompleteness issues, but the quantities make sense globally. Consider the on the base defined by . If we attempt to lift this by parallel transport, in general we cannot get a closed loop, and this failure is measured by the holonomy of the -connection along the . When , due to the exponential decay of the -dependent part of , this holonomy converges to two real numbers modulo . In particular, if we twist by a flat -connection, then receive a corresponding twist so that is unaffected. Thus we can assume without loss of generality that , namely the asymptotic holonomy of is zero, so in the limit the cycle lifts to a closed loop, on which we can evaluate the period asymptotically.
By construction , and using from the proof of Lemma 3.7, we compute
From this we see the integrality condition on the periods, so the holomorphic functions are well defined without multivalue issues.
Notice the definition of for involve three unspecified multiplicative constants; by prescribing their product appropriately, the functional equation follows from Lemma 3.9. The remaining two free multiplicative constants will be fixed in later Sections. ∎
We denote . The functional equation gives a map
By the same argument as Section 2.4, this is a holomorphic map on and extends continuously at the origin.
Proposition 3.11.
The map is a holomorphic open embedding. The -action is identified as
and the holomorphic volume form is .
Proof.
The -action follows the same argument as Proposition 2.11. The holomorphic volume form is characterised by Notice also
so . This formula in particular implies the map is a local biholomorphism. We finally need to show this map is injective. Since both and fibre over the coordinate in a compatible way, it suffices to compare the fibres, which have compatible -actions, so boils down to the injectivity of for fixed . ∎
Remark 3.5.
Section 2.5 shows that the algebraic structure on Taub-NUT type emerges from holomorphic functions with controlled growth at infinity. Since our Kähler ansatz is incomplete, it makes no literal sense to speak of spatial infinity. Instead growth rate is thought in terms of effective estimates. For a holomorphic function on normalised to , if we decompose according to the weights of the -action, then in a smaller metric ball around the origin only Fourier components with small -weights contribute significantly to . The intuition is that -weights are related to an effective filtration of local holomorphic functions.