The classification of homogeneous Einstein metrics on flag manifolds with b₂(M) = 1

DOI10.1016/J.BULSCI.2013.11.002MaRDI QIDQ401433zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ioannis Chrysikos, Yusuke Sakane

Publication date 26 August 2014

Published in Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1306

zbMATH Keywords

generalized flag manifoldfiniteness conjecturehomogeneous Einstein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a simple compact connected Lie group. We study homogeneous Einstein metrics for a class of compact homogeneous spaces, namely generalized flag manifolds $G/H$ with second Betti number $b_2(G/H)=1$. There are 8 infinite families $G/H$ corresponding to a classical simple Lie group $G$ and 25 exceptional flag manifolds, which all have some common geometric features; for example they admit a unique invariant complex structure which gives rise to unique invariant K"ahler--Einstein metric. The most typical examples are the compact isotropy irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces for which the Killing form is the unique homogeneous Einstein metric (which is K"ahler). For non-isotropy irreducible spaces the classification of homogeneous Einstein metrics has been completed for 24 of the 26 cases. In this paper we construct the Einstein equation for the two unexamined cases, namely the flag manifolds $E_8/U(1)imesSU(4)imesSU(5)$ and $E_8/U(1)imesSU(2)imesSU(3)imesSU(5)$. In order to determine explicitly the Ricci tensors of an $E_8$-invariant metric we use a method based on the Riemannian submersions. For both spaces we classify all homogeneous Einstein metrics and thus we conclude that any flag manifold $G/H$ with $b_2(M)=1$ admits a finite number of non-isometric non-K"ahler invariant Einstein metrics. The precise number of these metrics is given in Table 1.

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