Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri and Vafa constructed a real-valued invariant for Calabi–Yau manifolds, which is now called the BCOV invariant. In this paper, we extend to such pairs $(X,D)$ , where $X$ compact Kähler manifold $D$ pluricanonical divisor on with simple normal crossing support. We also study behavior of extended under blow-ups. The results in paper lead joint work Fu proving that bira...

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We study the blow-up of the solution to a quasilinear viscoelastic wave system coupled by nonlinear sources. The system is of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The nonlinear damping and source are added to the equations. We assume that the relaxation functions are non-negative non-increasing functions and the initial energy is negative. The competition relations among the nonlinear prin...

We study the time evolution of freely rolling moduli in the context of M-theory on a G2 manifold. This free evolution approximates the correct dynamics of the system at sufficiently large values of the moduli when effects from non-perturbative potentials and flux are negligible. Moduli fall into two classes, namely bulk moduli and blow-up moduli. We obtain a number of non-trivial solutions for ...