UBC DG+MP+PDE Seminar: Joshua Jordan

  • Date: 10/04/2022
  • Time: 15:30
Lecturer(s):
Joshua Jordan, UC Irvine
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Non-Kahler Calabi-Yau geometry and pluriclosed flow

Description: 

Hermitian, pluriclosed metrics with vanishing Bismut-Ricci form give a natural extension of Calabi-Yau metrics to the setting of complex, non-Kahler manifolds, and arise independently in mathematical physics. We reinterpret this condition in terms of the Hermitian-Einstein equation on an associated holomorphic Courant algebroid, and thus refer to solutions as Bismut Hermitian-Einstein. This implies Mumford-Takemoto slope stability obstructions, and using these we exhibit infinitely many topologically distinct complex manifolds in every dimension with vanishing first Chern class which do not admit Bismut Hermitian-Einstein metrics. This reformulation also leads to a new description of pluriclosed flow in terms of Hermitian metrics on holomorphic Courant algebroids, implying new global existence results, in particular on all complex non-K¨ahler surfaces of Kodaira dimension κ≥0. On complex manifolds which admit Bismut-flat metrics we show global existence and convergence of pluriclosed flow to a Bismut-flat metric, which in turn gives a classification of generalized Kähler structures on these spaces.

Other Information: 

Location: Online

For Zoom link, please contact spicard@math.ubc.ca