We introduce new pseudo-metrics on spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds of a symplectic manifold $(M, \omega)$ by considering areas associated to projecting Lagrangian cobordisms in $\mathbb{C} \times M$ to the “time-energy plane” $\mathbb{C}$. We investigate the non-degeneracy properties of these pseudo-metrics, reflecting the rigidity and flexibility aspects of Lagrangian cobordisms.

Given a reductive representation $\rho : \pi_1 (S) \to G$, there exists a $\rho$-equivariant harmonic map $f$ from the universal cover of a fixed Riemann surface $\Sigma$ to the symmetric space $G/K$ associated to $G$. If the Hopf differential of $f$ vanishes, the harmonic map is then minimal. In this paper, we investigate the properties of immersed minimal surfaces inside symmetric space associated to a subloci of Hitchin component: the $q_n$ and $q_{n-1}$ cases. First, we show that the pullback metric of the minimal surface dominates a constant multiple of the hyperbolic metric in the same conformal class and has a strong rigidity property. Secondly, we show that the immersed minimal surface is never tangential to any flat inside the symmetric space. As a direct corollary, the pullback metric of the minimal surface is always strictly negatively curved. In the end, we find a fully decoupled system to approximate the coupled Hitchin system.

We construct large families of new collapsing hyperkähler metrics on the $K3$ surface. The limit space is a flat Riemannian $3$-orbifold $T^3 / \mathbb{Z}_2$. Away from finitely many exceptional points the collapse occurs with bounded curvature. There are at most $24$ exceptional points where the curvature concentrates, which always contains the 8 fixed points of the involution on $T^3$. The geometry around these points is modelled by ALF gravitational instantons: of dihedral type ($D_k$) for the fixed points of the involution on T3 and of cyclic type ($A_k$) otherwise.

The collapsing metrics are constructed by deforming approximately hyperkähler metrics obtained by gluing ALF gravitational instantons to a background (incomplete) $S^1$–invariant hyperkähler metric arising from the Gibbons–Hawking ansatz over a punctured $3$-torus.

As an immediate application to submanifold geometry, we exhibit hyperkähler metrics on the $K3$ surface that admit a strictly stable minimal sphere which cannot be holomorphic with respect to any complex structure compatible with the metric.

We study germs of real analytic $n$-dimensional submanifold of $\mathbf{C}^n$ that has a complex tangent space of maximal dimension at a CR singularity. Under some assumptions, we first classify holomorphically the quadrics having this property. We then study higher order perturbations of these quadrics and their transformations to a normal form under the action of local (possibly formal) biholomorphisms at the singularity. We are led to study formal Poincaré–Dulac normal forms (non-unique) of reversible biholomorphisms. We exhibit a reversible map of which the normal forms are all divergent at the singularity. We then construct a unique formal normal form of the submanifolds under a non degeneracy condition.