Benjamin Bakker

    Speaker Benjamin Bakker Univ. Illinois Chicago Compact hyperkahler manifolds X are higher-dimensional generalizations of K3 surfaces; their geometry is tightly constrained by the existence of a holomorphic symplectic form. For example, a result of Matsushita says the only nontrivial fibration structures f:X→B they admit are fibrations by Lagrangian tori. In this talk, I …

    Speaker Benjamin Bakker Univ. Illinois Chicago Matsushita conjectured that for any Lagrangian fibration f:X→B of a compact hyperkahler manifold X, the fibers deform either maximally or trivially in moduli. In this talk I'll explain how to prove this conjecture via Hodge theory. I will also discuss some other features of the topology of …