Extremal Kähler metrics and Bach-Merkulov equations

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2013.03.025MaRDI QIDQ390853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Caner Koca

Publication date 9 January 2014

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4177

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Maxwell equationsEinstein metricsBach tensorBach-Merkulov equationsWeyl curvatureextremal Kähler metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Critical metrics (58E11) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

Abstract: In this paper, we study a coupled system of equations on oriented compact 4-manifolds which we call the Bach-Merkulov equations. These equations can be thought of as the conformally invariant version of the classical Einstein-Maxwell equations in general relativity. Inspired by the work of C. LeBrun on Einstein-Maxwell equations on compact Kaehler surfaces, we give a variational characterization of solutions to Bach-Merkulov equations as critical points of the Weyl functional. We also show that extremal Kaehler metrics are solutions to these equations, although, contrary to the Einstein-Maxwell analogue, they are not necessarily minimizers of the Weyl functional. We illustrate this phenomenon by studying the Calabi action on Hirzebruch surfaces.

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