Geodesics on a K3 surface near the orbifold limit

Abstract

This article studies Kummer K3 surfaces close to the orbifold limit. We improve upon estimates for the Calabi–Yau metrics due to Kobayashi. As an application, we study stable closed geodesics. We use the metric estimates to show how there are generally restrictions on the existence of such geodesics. We also show how there can exist stable, closed geodesics in some highly symmetric circumstances due to hyperkähler identities.