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Given a compact, complex manifold M with a Kähler metric, we fix the deRham cohomology class Ω of the Kahler metric, and consider the function space ℊΩ of all Kahler metrics in M in that class. To each (g) ∈ GΩ we assign the non-negative real number \( \Phi (g) = \int\limits_{M} {R_{g}^{2}d{V_{g}}}\) (R g = scalar curvature, d V g = volume element).
Aiming to find a (g) ∈ ℊΩ that minimizes the function Φ, we study the geometric properties in M of any (g) ∈ ℊΩ that is a critical point of Φ, with the following results.
1) Any metric (g) that is a critical point of Φ is necessarily invariant under a maximal compact subgroup of the identity component ℌ0(M) of the complex Lie group of all holomorphic automorphisms of M.
2) Any critical metric (g) ∈ ℊΩ of Φ achieves a local minimum value of Φ in ℊΩ; the component of (g) in the critical set of Φ coincides with the orbit of Φ under the action of the group ℌ0(M), it is diffeomorphic to an open euclidean ball, and the critical set is always non-degenerate in the sense of ℌ0(M)-equivariant Morse theory.
3) If there exists a (g) ∈ ℊΩ with constant scalar curvature R, then it achieves an absolute minimum value of Φ; furthermore every critical metric in ℊΩ has constant R, and achieves the same value of Φ.
4) Whenever the existence of a critical Kahler metric (g) can be guaranteed (i.e., always, according to a conjecture 2), then Futaki’s obstruction determines a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a (g) ∈ ℊΩ with constant scalar curvature.
Research supported by NSF Grant No. MCS 81–15107 and by the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
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Calabi, E. (1985). Extremal Kähler Metrics II. In: Chavel, I., Farkas, H.M. (eds) Differential Geometry and Complex Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69828-6_8
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