On Calabi’s extremal metric and properness

He, Weiyong

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On Calabi’s extremal metric and properness
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Abstract:

In this paper we extend a recent breakthrough of Chen and Cheng on the existence of a constant scalar Kähler metric on a compact Kähler manifold to Calabi’s extremal metric. There are no new a priori estimates needed, but rather there are necessary modifications adapted to the extremal case. We prove that there exists an extremal metric with extremal vector $V$ if and only if the modified Mabuchi energy is proper, modulo the action of the subgroup in the identity component of the automorphism group which commutes with the flow of $V$. We introduce two essentially equivalent notions, called reductive properness and reduced properness. We observe that one can test reductive properness/reduced properness only for invariant metrics. We prove that existence of an extremal metric is equivalent to reductive properness/reduced properness of the modified Mabuchi energy.

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