Gluing and deformation of asymptotically cylindrical Calabi-Yau manifolds in complex dimension three

Abstract

We develop some consequences of the connection between Calabi-Yau structures and torsion-free $G_2$ structures on compact and asymptotically cylindrical six- and seven-dimensional manifolds. Firstly, we improve the known proof that matching asymptotically cylindrical Calabi-Yau threefolds can be glued. Secondly, we give an alternative proof that the moduli space of Calabi-Yau structures on a six-dimensional real manifold is smooth, and extend it to the asymptotically cylindrical case. Finally, we prove that the gluing map of Calabi-Yau threefolds, extended between these moduli spaces, is a local diffeomorphism: that is, that every deformation of a glued Calabi-Yau threefold arises from an essentially unique deformation of the asymptotically cylindrical pieces.