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Title: Moment maps, nonlinear PDE and stability in mirror symmetry, I: geodesics.
In this paper, the first in a series, we study the deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills (dHYM) equation from the variational point of view as an infinite dimensional GIT problem. The dHYM equation is mirror to the special Lagrangian equation, and our infinite dimensional GIT problem is mirror to Thomas' GIT picture for special Lagrangians. This gives rise to infinite dimensional manifold H closely related to Solomon's space of positive Lagrangians. In the hypercritical phase case we prove the existence of smooth approximate geodesics, and weak geodesics with C1,α regularity. This is accomplished by proving sharp with respect to scale estimates for the Lagrangian phase operator on collapsing manifolds with boundary. As an application of our techniques we give a simplified proof of Chen's theorem on the existence of C1,α geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics. In two follow up papers, these results will be used to examine algebraic obstructions to the existence of solutions to dHYM and special Lagrangians in Landau-Ginzburg models.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1902645
PAR ID:
10294726
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Annals of PDE
Volume:
7
Issue:
no. 1
ISSN:
2199-2576
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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