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2.1. Cheeger-Gromov convergence [05DB]

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2.1. Cheeger-Gromov convergence

Since Gromov introduced the concept of Gromov-Hausdorff topology in [14], the convergence of Riemannian manifolds was studied from various perspectives (c.f. [1], [2], [7], [8], [11], [13], [19], [35], [38] and references in [9]). In [14] and [13], a convergence theorem, the Cheeger-Gromov convergence theorem, was proved for Riemannian manifolds with bounded curvature and non-collapsing. The Kähler version of this theorem can be found in [30]. See [7] for the convergence of manifolds with other holonomy groups.

Theorem 2.1 (Kähler version of Cheeger-Gromov convergence theorem).

Let {(Mk,gk,Jk,ωk,pk)}\{(M_{k},g_{k},J_{k},\omega_{k},p_{k})\} be a family of pointed compact Kähler n-manifolds with sectional curvature and injectivity radius at pkp_{k}

|Kgk|≤1,igk​(pk)≥C,|K_{g_{k}}|\leq 1,\ \ \ i_{g_{k}}(p_{k})\geq C,

for a constant C>0C>0 independent of kk. Then a subsequence of {(Mk,gk,Jk,ωk,pk)}\{(M_{k},g_{k},J_{k},\omega_{k},p_{k})\} converges to a complete Kähler n-manifold (X,g,J,ω,p)(X,g,J,\omega,p) in the pointed C1,αC^{1,\alpha}-sense, i.e. for any r>0r>0, there are embeddings Fk,r:Bg​(p,r)⟶MkF_{k,r}:B_{g}(p,r)\longrightarrow M_{k} such that Fk,r​(p)=pkF_{k,r}(p)=p_{k}, Fk,r∗​gkF_{k,r}^{*}g_{k} (resp. d​Fk,r−1​Jk​d​Fk,rdF_{k,r}^{-1}J_{k}dF_{k,r} and Fk,r∗​ωkF_{k,r}^{*}\omega_{k}) converges to gg (resp. JJ and ω\omega) in the C1,αC^{1,\alpha}-sense.

If we assume that gkg_{k} are Einstein metrics, it is shown in [1] that, by passing to a subsequence, {(Mk,gk,Jk,ωk,pk)}\{(M_{k},g_{k},J_{k},\omega_{k},p_{k})\} converges to (X,g,J,ω,p)(X,g,J,\omega,p) in the pointed C∞C^{\infty}-sense, and gg is also an Einstein metric, i.e. Fk,r∗​gkF_{k,r}^{*}g_{k} (resp. d​Fk,r−1​Jk​d​Fk,rdF_{k,r}^{-1}J_{k}dF_{k,r} and Fk,r∗​ωkF_{k,r}^{*}\omega_{k}) converges to gg (resp. JJ and ω\omega) in the C∞C^{\infty}-sense. Assume that (Mk,gk,Jk,ωk,pk)(M_{k},g_{k},J_{k},\omega_{k},p_{k}) are Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau manifolds, and Ωk\Omega_{k} are the corresponding holomorphic volume forms. Since Ωk\Omega_{k} are parallel, i.e. ∇gkΩk≡0\nabla^{g_{k}}\Omega_{k}\equiv 0, for any r>0r>0, Fk,r∗​ΩkF_{k,r}^{*}\Omega_{k} converge to a holomorphic volume form Ω\Omega on XX in the C∞C^{\infty}-sense, and (X,g,J,ω,Ω)(X,g,J,\omega,\Omega) is a complete Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau nn-manifold.

In [5], [6], the collapsing of Riemannian manifolds with bounded curvature was studied by combining blow-up arguments and the Cheeger-Gromov convergence theorem. It was shown that there is a constant ϵ0​(n)>0\epsilon_{0}(n)>0 depending only on nn such that there is an FF-structure ℱ\mathcal{F} of positive rank on a region covering Mϵ0M_{\epsilon_{0}} in a Riemannian nn-manifold (M,g)(M,g), where Mϵ0M_{\epsilon_{0}} denotes the subset with injectivity radius ig​(p)<ϵ0i_{g}(p)<\epsilon_{0} and sectional curvature supBg​(p,1)|Kg|≤1,\sup\limits_{B_{g}(p,1)}|K_{g}|\leq 1, for any p∈Mϵ0p\in M_{\epsilon_{0}}. See [5] and [6] for the definition of FF-structure of positive rank. If we assume that gg is a Kähler metric, some additional information about the FF-structure ℱ\mathcal{F} is expected. We have the following conjecture:

Conjecture 2.2.

For any n∈ℕn\in\mathbb{N}, there exists a constant ϵ=ϵ⁡(n)>0\epsilon=\epsilon(n)>0 depending only on nn such that, if (M,ω,J,g)(M,\omega,J,g) is a closed Kähler n-manifold with [ω]∈H2​(M,ℤ)[\omega]\in H^{2}(M,\mathbb{Z}), and

Mϵ={p∈M|ig(p)<ϵ,supBg​(p,1)|Kg|≤1},M_{\epsilon}=\{p\in M|\ i_{g}(p)<\epsilon,\ \sup_{B_{g}(p,1)}|K_{g}|\leq 1\},

then there is an open subset W⊂MW\subset M such that W⊃MϵW\supset M_{\epsilon}, and WW admits an F-structure ℱ\mathcal{F} of positive rank, whose orbits 𝒪p\mathcal{O}_{p}, p∈Mϵp\in M_{\epsilon}, are isotropic submanifolds of (M,ω)(M,\omega), i.e.

ω|𝒪p≡0.\omega|_{\mathcal{O}_{p}}\equiv 0.

We will address this question in other papers. In the present paper, we prove Theorem 1.1 by combining Theorem 2.1 and the deformation theory of special lagrangian fibrations.

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