Speaker
Tristan Ozuch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Recent developments have led to a complete reconstruction of the moduli space of Einstein 4-metrics in a Gromov-Hausdorff (GH) neighborhood of any noncollapsed singular metric. This arbitrarily precise reconstruction has provided indications that being Kähler may be a necessary condition for an Einstein singular space to be a limit of smooth Einstein 4-manifolds with expected topology. However, with Claude Lebrun, we show that this condition is not sufficient when the scalar curvature is positive. Specifically, our work demonstrates that if a real Einstein 4-metric is close to a conformally Kähler Einstein orbifold with positive scalar curvature, it must be conformally Kähler, which rules out many desingularizations. To prove this, we combine the above reconstruction and a flexible criterion developed by Wu and improved by Lebrun to detect Kähler-Einstein metrics among Einstein metrics.