Infinitely many families of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on spheres

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Yuchen Liu, Northwestern University
Fine Hall 322

In-Person Talk 

We show that there exist infinitely many families of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on every odd-dimensional standard sphere of dimension at least 5. We also show that the same result is true for all odd-dimensional exotic spheres that bound parallelizable manifolds. As a consequence, we confirm conjectures of Boyer-Galicki-Kollár and Collins-Székelyhidi. Based on joint work with Taro Sano and Luca Tasin.