Non-Existence Of Extremal Sasaki Metrics And The Berglund-Hübsch Transpose
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2025
Published In
Journal Of Geometry And Physics
Abstract
We use the Berglund-Hübsch transpose rule from classical mirror symmetry in the context of Sasakian geometry [11] and results on relative K-stability in the Sasaki setting developed by Boyer and van Coevering in [6] to exhibit examples of Sasaki manifolds with big Sasaki cones that have no extremal Sasaki metrics at all. Previously, examples with this feature were produced in [6] for Brieskorn-Pham polynomials or their deformations. Our examples are based on the more general framework of invertible polynomials. In particular, we construct families of links that preserve the emptiness of the extremal Sasaki-Reeb cone via the Berglund-Hübsch rule: if the link does not admit extremal Sasaki metrics then its Berglund-Hübsch dual preserves this property and moreover this dual admits a representative in its local moduli with a larger Sasaki-Reeb cone which remains obstructed to admitting extremal Sasaki metrics. Some of the examples exhibited here have the homotopy type of a sphere or are rational homology spheres.
Keywords
Berglund-Hübsch, Extremal Sasaki metrics, Homotopy spheres, Rational homology spheres
Recommended Citation
J. C. Valle, Ralph R. Gomez, and J. L. Vicente.
(2025).
"Non-Existence Of Extremal Sasaki Metrics And The Berglund-Hübsch Transpose".
Journal Of Geometry And Physics.
Volume 214,
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2025.105531
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