Seminar| Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Time: 14:00-15:00, Friday, January 10, 2020
Location：Room S408, IMS
Speaker: Naoto Yotsutani, Kagawa University
Abstract: It is well-known that there is only one compact Kahler manifold with zero first Chern class up to diffeomorphism in complex dimension 1. This is topologically a torus and is an example of Calabi-Yau manifold. The Ricci-flat metric on a torus is actually a flat metric. In dimension 2, the K3 surfaces furnish the compact simply-connected Calabi-Yau manifolds. However in 3 dimension, it is an open problem whether or not the number of topologically distinct types of Calabi-Yau 3- folds is bounded. From the view point of physics (String theory), S.T. Yau speculates that there is a finite number of families of Calabi-Yau 3-folds. From the view point of mathematics, in turn, it has been conjectured by M. Reid that the number of topological types (or differential structures) of Calabi-Yau 3-folds is infinite. In this talk, we consider how to distinguish two doubling Calabi-Yau 3-folds by diffeo types building upon our previous work with M. Doi.