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Saman Habibi Esfahani
Saman Habibi Esfahani, Duke University

On the Donaldson-Scaduto conjecture

This talk is based on a joint work with Yang Li. Motivated by collapsing Calabi-Yau 3-folds and G2-manifolds with Lefschetz K3 fibrations in the adiabatic setting, Donaldson and Scaduto conjectured the existence of a special Lagrangian pair-of-pants in the Calabi-Yau 3-fold $X \times \mathbb R^2$, where $X$ is either a hyperkähler K3 surface (global version) or an A2-type ALE hyperkähler 4-manifold (local version). After a brief introduction to the subject, we discuss the significance of this conjecture in the study of Calabi-Yau 3-folds and G2-manifolds, and then prove the local version of the conjecture, which in turn implies the global version for an open subset of the moduli of K3 surfaces.