Scalar curvature and holomorphy potentials

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DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.03.001zbMATH Open1248.53056arXiv0804.4671OpenAlexW2085182113MaRDI QIDQ423698FDOQ423698


Authors: Gideon Maschler Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 June 2012

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

Abstract: A holomorphy potential is a complex valued function whose complex gradient, with respect to some K"ahler metric, is a holomorphic vector field. Given k holomorphic vector fields on a compact complex manifold, form, for a given K"ahler metric, a product of the following type: a function of the scalar curvature multiplied by functions of the holomorphy potentials of each of the vector fields. It is shown that the stipulation that such a product be itself a holomorphy potential for yet another vector field singles out critical metrics for a particular functional. This may be regarded as a generalization of the extremal metric variation of Calabi, where k=0 and the functional is the square of the L2-norm of the scalar curvature. The existence question for such metrics is examined in a number of special cases. Examples are constructed in the case of certain multifactored product manifolds. For the sk metrics investigated by Derdzinski and Maschler and residing in the complex projective space, it is shown that only one type of nontrivial criticality holds in dimension three and above.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4671




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