01.03.2022 (Tuesday)

GE Geometry seminar: Polyhedral Kahler cone metrics on C^n

regular seminar Martin de Borbon (KCL)

at:
15:30 - 16:30
KCL, Strand
room: Bush House South Wing 2.02
abstract:

Abstract: I will discuss a particular class of flat torsion free meromorphic connections on Cn with simple poles at hyperplane arrangements. The main result is that, if the holonomy is unitary, then the metric completion (of the flat Kahler metric on the arrangement complement) is polyhedral. Taking the quotient by scalar multiplication leads to new interesting Fubini-Study metrics with cone singularities. In the case of the braid arrangement, our result extends to higher dimensions the well-known existence criterion for spherical metrics on the projective line with three cone points (which goes back to Klein's work on the monodromy of Gauss' hypergeometric equation). This is joint work with Dmitri Panov.

Keywords: Geometry