In this paper, it is proved that the Hodge metric completion of the moduli space of polarized and marked Calabi-Yau manifolds, ie the Torelli space, is a complex affine manifold. As applications we prove that the period map from the Torelli space and the extended period map from its completion space, both are injective into the period domain, and that the completion space is a bounded domain of holomorphy with a complete Khler-Einstein metric. As a corollary we show that the period map from the moduli space of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds with level m structure is also injective.

Let <i>M</i> be a compact Khler manifold and <i>N</i> be a subvariety with codimension greater than or equal to 2. We show that there are no complete KhlerEinstein metrics on M - N . As an application, let <i>E</i> be an exceptional divisor of <i>M</i>. Then M - N cannot admit any complete KhlerEinstein metric if blow-down of <i>E</i> is a complex variety with only canonical or terminal singularities. A similar result is shown for pairs.

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We conjecture that appropriate K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of complex flag manifolds G/B are governed by finite-difference versions of Toda systems constructed in terms of the Langlands-dual quantized universal enveloping algebras U_q(g'). The conjecture is proved in the case of classical flag manifolds of the series A. The proof is based on a refinement of the famous Atiyah-Hirzebruch argument for rigidity of arithmetical genus applied to hyperquot-scheme compactifications of spaces of rational curves in the flag manifolds.

Let $(V, 0)$ be an isolated hypersurface singularity. We introduce a series of new derivation Lie algebras $L_{k}(V)$ associated to $(V,0)$. Its dimension is denoted as $\lambda_{k}(V)$. The $L_{k}(V)$ is a generalization of the Yau algebra $L(V)$ and $L_{0}(V)=L(V)$. These numbers $\lambda_{k}(V)$ are new numerical analytic invariants of an isolated hypersurface singularity. In this article we compute $L_1(V)$ for fewnomial isolated singularities (Binomial, Trinomial) and obtain the formulas of $L_{1}(V)$. We also formulate a sharp upper estimate conjecture for the $L_k(V)$ of weighted homogeneous isolated hypersurface singularities and we prove this conjecture for large class of singularities. Furthermore, we formulate another conjecture: $\cdots >\lambda^{(i+1)}(V) > \lambda^i(V) \cdots >\lambda^0(V) \geq \lambda_l (V),\; l=1,2,\cdots,n$. We partially prove it for binomial and trinomial singularities.