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Machine Learned Calabi-Yau Metrics and Curvature

17 Nov 2022arXiv:2211.09801archive 2025-07-28

Per Berglund, Giorgi Butbaia, Tristan Hübsch, Vishnu Jejjala, Damián Mayorga Peña, Challenger Mishra, Justin Tan

Finding Ricci-flat (Calabi-Yau) metrics is a long standing problem in geometry with deep implications for string theory and phenomenology. A new attack on this problem uses neural networks to engineer approximations to the Calabi-Yau metric within a given K\"ahler class. In this paper we investigate numerical Ricci-flat metrics over smooth and singular K3 surfaces and Calabi-Yau threefolds. Using these Ricci-flat metric approximations for the Cefal\'u family of quartic twofolds and the Dwork family of quintic threefolds, we study characteristic forms on these geometries. We observe that the numerical stability of the numerically computed topological characteristic is heavily influenced by the choice of the neural network model, in particular, we briefly discuss a different neural network model, namely Spectral networks, which correctly approximate the topological characteristic of a Calabi-Yau. Using persistent homology, we show that high curvature regions of the manifolds form clusters near the singular points. For our neural network approximations, we observe a Bogomolov--Yau type inequality 3c₂ ≥c₁² and observe an identity when our geometries have isolated A₁ type singularities. We sketch a proof that χ(X ∖ Sing X) + 2 |Sing X| = 24 also holds for our numerical approximations.

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