Scalar curvature and holomorphy potentials

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.03.001MaRDI QIDQ423698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gideon Maschler

Publication date 4 June 2012

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

holomorphy potentialKilling potentialextremal Kähler metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Critical metrics (58E11)

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 $L^2$-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.

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