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Volume minimization and conformally Kähler, Einstein–Maxwell geometry

Akito FUTAKI and Hajime ONO

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Abstract

Let $M$ be a compact complex manifold admitting a Kähler structure. A conformally Kähler, Einstein–Maxwell metric (cKEM metric for short) is a Hermitian metric $\tilde g$ on $M$ with constant scalar curvature such that there is a positive smooth function $f$ with $g = f^{2} \tilde g$ being a Kähler metric and $f$ being a Killing Hamiltonian potential with respect to $g$. Fixing a Kähler class, we characterize such Killing vector fields whose Hamiltonian function $f$ with respect to some Kähler metric $g$ in the fixed Kähler class gives a cKEM metric $\tilde g = f^{-2}g$. The characterization is described in terms of critical points of certain volume functional. The conceptual idea is similar to the cases of Kähler–Ricci solitons and Sasaki–Einstein metrics in that the derivative of the volume functional gives rise to a natural obstruction to the existence of cKEM metrics. However, unlike the Kähler–Ricci soliton case and Sasaki–Einstein case, the functional is neither convex nor proper in general, and often has more than one critical points. The last observation matches well with the ambitoric examples studied earlier by LeBrun and Apostolov–Maschler.

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Source
J. Math. Soc. Japan, Volume 70, Number 4 (2018), 1493-1521.

Dates
Received: 20 April 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 6 September 2018

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1536220817

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2969/jmsj/77837783

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3868215

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
07009710

Subjects
Primary: 53C55: Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds [See also 32Cxx]
Secondary: 53C25: Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)

Keywords
conformally Kähler Einstein–Maxwell metric volume minimization

Citation

FUTAKI, Akito; ONO, Hajime. Volume minimization and conformally Kähler, Einstein–Maxwell geometry. J. Math. Soc. Japan 70 (2018), no. 4, 1493--1521. doi:10.2969/jmsj/77837783. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1536220817


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