Mass and Expansion of Asymptotically Conical Kähler Metrics

Abstract

We prove an expansion theorem on scalar-flat asymptotically conical Kähler metrics. Consider an AC Kähler manifold with asymptotic to a Ricci-flat Kähler metric cone with complex dimension n. Assuming the weak decay conditions required for the mass to be well-defined, then each scalar-flat AC Kähler metric admits an expansion that the main term is given by the standard Kähler metric of the metric cone and the leading error term is of O(r^{2-2n}) with coefficient only depending on the ADM mass and its dimension. Besides, the mass formula by Hein-LeBrun also can be proved in our setting. As an application, a new version of the positive mass theorem will be discussed in the cases of the resolutions of the Ricci-flat Kähler cones.

28 pages