Analysis and degenerations of ALH* gravitational instantons

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Gravitational instantons are non-compact Calabi-Yau metrics with L^2 bounded curvature and are categorized into six types. We will focus on the ALH*type which has a non-compact end with inhomogeneous collapsing near infinity. I will talk about a joint project with Rafe Mazzeo on the Fredholm mapping property of the Laplacian and the Dirac operator, where the geometric microlocal analysis of fibered metrics plays a central role. Application of this Fredholm theory includes the L^2 Hodge theory, polyhomogeneous expansion and local perturbation theory. I will also discuss a joint project with Yu-Shen Lin and Sidharth Soundararajan on the degeneration of such metrics which gives a partial compactification of their moduli space.

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