THE CURVATURE OF A HESSIAN METRIC

DOI10.1142/S0129167X04002338zbMATH Open1058.53032arXivmath/0401381MaRDI QIDQ4809780FDOQ4809780

Authors: Burt Totaro 

Publication date: 30 August 2004

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Following P. M. H. Wilson's paper on sectional curvatures of Kahler moduli, we consider a natural Riemannian metric on a hypersurface f=1 in a real vector space, defined using the Hessian of a homogeneous polynomial f. We give examples to answer a question by Wilson about when this metric has nonpositive curvature. Also, we exhibit a large class of polynomials f on R^3 such that the associated metric has constant negative curvature. Dubrovin found another such polynomial on R^3, the Maschke sextic. We ask if these examples are the only ones with constant negative curvature, and we prove some partial results. This question is related both to the WDVV equations from string theory and to the "Clebsch covariant" from 19th-century invariant theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0401381

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zbMATH Keywords

Hessian metriccentroaffine metricClebsch covariantKähler moduli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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