Stability of compact symmetric spaces

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00838-3MaRDI QIDQ2117484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregor Weingart, Uwe Semmelmann

Publication date 21 March 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07328

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein metricsstabilitysymmetric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: In this article we study the stability problem for the Einstein-Hilbert functional on compact symmetric spaces following and completing the seminal work of Koiso on the subject. We classify in detail the irreducible representations of simple Lie algebras with Casimir eigenvalue less than the Casimir eigenvalue of the adjoint representation, and use this information to prove the stability of the Einstein metrics on both the quaternionic and Cayley projective plane. Moreover we prove that the Einstein metrics on quaternionic Grassmannians different from projective spaces are unstable.

Review text

The article is a study on the stability problem (in the sense of Koiso) for the Einstein-Hilbert functional on compact symmetric spaces. The main result that clarifies the stability status of quaternionic and Cayley projective planes is the following: Theorem. The Cayley projective plane $\mathbf{O}P^2=F_4/\mathrm{Spin}(9)$ is stable in the sense of Koiso. The quaternionic Grassmannians $\mathbf{Gr}_r H^{r+s}=\mathrm{Sp}(r+s)/\mathrm{Sp}(r)\times \mathrm{Sp}(s)$ of quaternionic subspaces of dimension $r$ in $H^{r+s}$ are unstable in the sense of Koiso for all parameters $r,s\geq2$, but they are stable for $r=1$ or $s=1$. In particular, $HP^2=\mathbf{Gr}_1H^3$ is stable.

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