Existence of extremal metrics on almost homogeneous manifolds of cohomogeneity one (Q5947038)

The authors work with the following question: is it possible to find a special metric on a compact almost homogeneous manifold of cohomogeneity one? If the algebraic part of the automorphism group is not semisimple, the manifold has a structure of a completion of a \(C^*\) bundle over a compact homogeneous Kähler manifold (Theorem 1) and in each Kähler class there always exists an extremal metric (resp. a quasi Einstein metric). Hence the problem is reduced to the situation in wich the algebraic part of the automorphism group is semisimple (called the semisimple case). Some methods of the real Riemannian geometry, e.g. do not work for this case. In the semisimple case the Futaki invariants are automatically zero (Theorem 2). Motivated with the Hilbert scheme construction they consider the manifold \(M_n=Z_{1,2}(\mathbb{C} P^n)\), which is Fano. They prove the existence of the Kähler-Einstein metrics on \(M_n\) and show some special properties of those Kähler metrics on these manifolds. They say that one might also generalize the results to some smooth Hilbert schemes and hence some moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles over Kähler-Einstein manifolds. For Part II, see the first author, J. Geom. Anal. 12, 63-79 (2002).