Isometries of the Space of Sasaki Potentials

Publication date 29 November 2021

Abstract: Given any two K"ahler manifolds

X_{1}

and

X_{2}

, L. Lempert recently proved that if their spaces of K"ahler potentials are isometric with respect to the Mabuchi metric, then

X_{1}

and

X_{2}

must be diffeomorphic. We prove that this is no longer the case for Sasaki manifolds. Then, considering regular Sasaki manifolds

M_{1}

and

M_{2}

, we prove that if the spaces of potentials are isometric, then

M_{1}

and

M_{2}

must have, among others, the same universal covering space. Finally, getting rid of the regularity assumption on

M_{1}

and

M_{2}

, we investigate the consequences of the existence of affine Mabuchi isometries: this leads to a family of Sasaki isospectral structures.

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