陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Distinguished Lecture Series II: Shing-Tung Yau, “The Basic Tools to Construct Geometric S」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

On Thursday, Yau continued his lecture series on geometric structures, focusing a bit more on the tools and philosophy that goes into actually building these structures. Much of the philosophy, in its full generality, is still rather vague and not properly formalised, but is nevertheless supported by a large number of rigorously worked out examples and results in special cases. A dominant theme in this talk was the interaction between geometry and physics, in particular gener

As usual, there are likely to be some inaccuracies in my presentation of Yau’s talk (I am not really an expert in this subject), and corrections are welcome. Yau’s slides for this talk are available here .

已知结果和反例

In Yau’s first lecture , Yau informally defined a “geometric structure” as an object (such as a metric or a special coordinate system) which induced a special connection which had the additional properties of being torsion-free and having a special holonomy group (e.g. SU(n) for Calabi-Yau manifolds , Sp(n) for hyperkähler manifolds , etc; Yau remarked that the exceptional Lie group , the spin group Spin(7), and the unitary groups U(n) also seemed to play particularly importa

For instance, some manifolds are fortunate enough to enjoy an interpretation as a moduli space of classes of some other type of geometric object; this certainly doesn’t occur for all manifolds, but when it does, it seems that this interpretation is fundamentally important to understanding the geometry of the manifold. In Zhang’s lecture two weeks ago , we saw that the upper half plane (modulo a lattice) could be viewed as a moduli space of elliptic curves (or tori); more gene

证明或构造的主线

In order to exploit this moduli space structure properly, there is a general and fundamental construction that generates nonlinear (and highly non-trivial) maps from one geometric object to another geometric object (which may be very different in topology, structure, or dimension); this construction seems to play a deep (and not fully understood) role in the analysis of such structures. A model example of this construction comes when trying to map structures (such as cohomolo

As observed by Chern, this general construction can be used to explain many classical constructions and identities, such as the kinematic formulae in integral geometry of Poincaré, Santalo, and Blaschke (in which the incidence relation between points and lines (say) is itself viewed as a symmetric space of the relevant group of motions, and serves as the common space mentioned earlier, projecting down to the space of points and the space of lines separately). (Yau also briefl

阅读时建议盯住的点

Another important example of a phenomenon which can be understood as a special case of this fundamental construction is that of T-duality from string theory. In its simplest form, T-duality starts with a torus and then considers its dual torus , where is the dual lattice to (note that the Pontryagin dual of T is , not !). For instance, in one dimension, the dual of a circle of radius r is essentially the circle of radius 1/r. The dual torus has a natural interpretation as the

As in other areas of mathematics, this concept becomes even more powerful when one considers families of such constructions, rather than just an individual construction. For instance, Strominger, Yau, and Zaslow showed that algebraic Calabi-Yau manifolds M of complex dimension 3 (thus real dimension 6) can be fibred (outside of a singular set of high codimension) as a 3-torus bundle over the 3-sphere . Applying the T-duality construction to all the tori in this bundle, one ob

值得单独记下的条目

• Variational techniques , which builds structures by trying to minimise some sort of energy-like functional. An important subclass of this technique uses a parabolic flow (such as a gradient flow for the energy functional) to obtain the mini

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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