On the curvature of Kähler–Norden manifolds

Using the one-to-one correspondence between Kähler–Norden and holomorphic Riemannian metrics, important relations between various Riemannian invariants of manifolds endowed with such metrics are established. Especially, the holomorphic versions of the recurrence of the Riemann, Ricci, projective are defined and investigated. For four-dimensional Kähler–Norden manifolds, it is proved that they are of holomorphically recurrent curvature on the set where the holomorphic scalar curvature does not vanish. Furthermore, a four-dimensional Kähler–Norden manifold is (locally) conformally flat if and only if its holomorphic scalar curvature is constant pure imaginary. The present paper continues author’s investigations of Kähler–Norden manifolds from the papers [K. Słuka, On Kähler manifolds with Norden metrics, An. Ştiint. Univ. Al.I. Cuza IaşI Ser. Ia Mat. 47 (2001) 105–122; K. Słuka, Properties of the Weyl conformal curvature of Kähler–Norden manifolds, in: Proc. Colloq. Diff. Geom. on Steps in Differential Geometry, July 25–30, 2000, Debrecen, 2001, pp. 317–328].     

Extremal Kähler metrics and Bach–Merkulov equations

In this paper, we study a coupled system of equations on oriented compact 4-manifolds which we call the Bach–Merkulov equations. These equations can be thought of as the conformally invariant version of the classical Einstein–Maxwell equations. Inspired by the work of C. LeBrun on Einstein–Maxwell equations on compact Kähler surfaces, we give a variational characterization of solutions to Bach–Merkulov equations as critical points of the Weyl functional. We also show that extremal Kähler metrics are solutions to these equations, although, contrary to the Einstein–Maxwell analogue, they are not necessarily minimizers of the Weyl functional. We illustrate this phenomenon by studying the Calabi action on Hirzebruch surfaces.     

Quaternionic Kähler metrics associated with special Kähler manifolds

We give an explicit formula for the quaternionic Kähler metrics obtained by the HK/QK correspondence. As an application, we give a new proof of the fact that the Ferrara–Sabharwal metric as well as its one-loop deformation is quaternionic Kähler. A similar explicit formula is given for the analogous (K/K) correspondence between Kähler manifolds endowed with a Hamiltonian Killing vector field. As an example, we apply this formula in the case of an arbitrary conical Kähler manifold.     

Obstructions to the Existence of Sasaki–Einstein Metrics

We describe two simple obstructions to the existence of Ricci-flat Kähler cone metrics on isolated Gorenstein singularities or, equivalently, to the existence of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on the links of these singularities. In particular, this also leads to new obstructions for Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano orbifolds. We present several families of hypersurface singularities that are obstructed, including 3-fold and 4-fold singularities of ADE type that have been studied previously in the physics literature. We show that the AdS/CFT dual of one obstruction is that the R–charge of a gauge invariant chiral primary operator violates the unitarity bound.     

Cauchy–Schwarz-type inequalities on Kähler manifolds

In this note we investigate Cauchy–Schwarz-type inequalities for cohomology elements on compact Kähler manifolds, which can be viewed as generalizations of a classical case. We obtain, as a corollary, some Chern number inequalities when the Hodge numbers of Kähler manifolds satisfy certain restrictions. The same argument can also be applied to compact quaternion-Kähler manifolds with positive scalar curvature to obtain a similar result.     

Hermitian–Einstein metrics on holomorphic vector bundles over Hermitian manifolds

In this paper, we prove the long-time existence of the Hermitian–Einstein flow on a holomorphic vector bundle over a compact Hermitian (non-Kähler) manifold, and solve the Dirichlet problem for the Hermitian–Einstein equations. We also prove the existence of Hermitian–Einstein metrics for holomorphic vector bundles on a class of complete non-compact Hermitian manifolds.     

From G2 geometry to quaternionic Kähler metrics

We review a construction of quaternionic Kähler metrics starting from a rank 2 distribution in 5 dimensions. We relate it to a more general theory about Einstein deformations of symmetric metrics. Finally we ask some questions on complete metrics and relate them to a Zoll phenomenon.     

Mass in Kähler Geometry

We prove a simple, explicit formula for the mass of any asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) Kähler manifold, assuming only the sort of weak fall-off conditions required for the mass to actually be well-defined. For ALE scalar-flat Kähler manifolds, the mass turns out to be a topological invariant, depending only on the underlying smooth manifold, the first Chern class of the complex structure, and the Kähler class of the metric. When the metric is actually AE (asymptotically Euclidean), our formula not only implies a positive mass theorem for Kähler metrics, but also yields a Penrose-type inequality for the mass.     

Holonomy groups,complex structures andD=4 topological Yang-Mills theory

We study conditions for the existence of extended supersymmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory. These conditions are most conveniently formulated in terms of the holonomy group of the underlying manifold, on which the topological Yang-Mills theory is defined. For irreducible manifolds we find that extended supersymmetries are in 1–1 correspondence with covariantly constant complex structures. Therefore, the topological Yang-Mills theory on any Kähler manifold possesses one additional supersymmetry and on any hyper Kähler manifold there are three additional supersymmetries. The Donaldson map, which plays a crucial role in the construction of the topological invariants, is generalized for Kähler manifolds, thus providing candidates for new invariants of complex manifolds.     

Harmonic maps and stability on locally conformal Kähler manifolds

We study harmonic and pluriharmonic maps on locally conformal Kähler manifolds. We prove that there are no nonconstant holomorphic pluriharmonic maps from a locally conformal Kähler manifold to a Kähler manifold and that any holomorphic harmonic map from a compact locally conformal Kähler manifold to a Kähler manifold is stable.     

C-projective equivalence and integrability of the geodesic flow

We show that there is a deep relation between $C$-projective equivalence and Kähler–Liouville manifolds; the latter is a typical class of Kähler manifolds whose geodesic flows are integrable in Liouville’s sense.     

The Dirac Operator on Generalized Taub-NUT Spaces

We find sufficient conditions for the absence of harmonic L ² spinors on spin manifolds constructed as cone bundles over a compact Kähler base. These conditions are fulfilled for certain perturbations of the Euclidean metric, and also for the generalized Taub-NUT metrics of Iwai-Katayama, thus proving a conjecture of Vi?inescu and the second author.     

ASK/PSK-correspondence and the <Emphasis Type="Italic">r</Emphasis>-map

We formulate a correspondence between affine and projective special Kähler manifolds of the same dimension. As an application, we show that, under this correspondence, the affine special Kähler manifolds in the image of the rigid r-map are mapped to one-parameter deformations of projective special Kähler manifolds in the image of the supergravity r-map. The above one-parameter deformations are interpreted as perturbative \(\alpha '\)-corrections in heterotic and type II string compactifications with \(N=2\) supersymmetry. Also affine special Kähler manifolds with quadratic prepotential are mapped to one-parameter families of projective special Kähler manifolds with quadratic prepotential. We show that the completeness of the deformed supergravity r-map metric depends solely on the (well-understood) completeness of the undeformed metric and the sign of the deformation parameter.     

Analytic torsion and holomorphic determinant bundles

In this paper, we prove that in the case of holomorphic locally Kähler fibrations, the analytic and algebraic geometry constructions of determinant bundles for direct images coincide. We calculate the curvature of the holomorphic Hermitian connection for the Quillen metric on the determinant bundle. We study the behavior of the Quillen metric under change of metrics in the fibers, and also on the twisting vector bundles. We thus generalize the conformal anomaly formula to Kähler manifolds of arbitrary dimension. We also study the Quillen metrics on determinants associated with exact sequences of vector bundles. We prove that the Quillen metric is smooth on the Grothendieck-Knudsen-Mumford determinant for arbitrary holomorphic fibrations.     

Gauge Linear Sigma Model for Berglund—Hübsch-Type Calabi—Yau Manifolds

We briefly present the results of our computation of special Kähler geometry for polynomial deformations of Berglund–Hübsch type Calabi–Yau manifolds. We also build mirror symmetric Gauge Linear Sigma Model and check that its partition function computed by supersymmetric localization coincides with exponent of the Kähler potential of the special metric.

     

Einstein Gravity in Almost Kähler Variables and Stability of Gravity with Nonholonomic Distributions and Nonsymmetric Metrics

We argue that the Einstein gravity theory can be reformulated in almost Kähler (nonsymmetric) variables with effective symplectic form and compatible linear connection uniquely defined by a (pseudo) Riemannian metric. A class of nonsymmetric theories of gravitation on manifolds enabled with nonholonomic distributions is considered. We prove that, for certain types of nonholonomic constraints, there are modelled effective Lagrangians which do not develop instabilities. It is also elaborated a linearization formalism for anholonomic noncommutative gravity theories models and analyzed the stability of stationary ellipsoidal solutions defining some nonholonomic and/or nonsymmetric deformations of the Schwarzschild metric. We show how to construct nonholonomic distributions which remove instabilities in nonsymmetric gravity theories. It is concluded that instabilities do not consist a general feature of theories of gravity with nonsymmetric metrics but a particular property of some models and/or unconstrained solutions.     

A new visualization of the gauged supersymmetric sigma-model by Killing potentials

The differential geometry of Kähler group manifolds will be thoroughly interpreted through Killing potentials. This enables us to reformulate the four dimensional gauged supersymmetric σ-model on Kähler group manifolds by Killing potentials. In the reformulation the Lagrangian will take a simple form in which the isometry of the manifolds is linearly manifest. The scalar curvature of the manifolds will be ascribed to the spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry in the model.     

Quasi-Einstein Kähler Metrics

We write an ansatz for quasi-Einstein Kähler metrics and construct new complete examples. Moreover, we construct new compact generalized quasi-Einstein Kähler metrics on some ruled surfaces, including some of Guan's examples as special cases.     

The Einstein–Maxwell Equations and Conformally Kähler Geometry

Page’s Einstein metric on \({{\mathbb{CP}}_2\#\overline{\mathbb{CP}}_2}\) is conformally related to an extremal Kähler metric. Here we construct a family of conformally Kähler solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations that deforms the Page metric, while sweeping out the entire Kähler cone of \({{\mathbb{CP}}_2\#\overline{\mathbb{CP}}_2}\). The same method also yields analogous solutions on every Hirzebruch surface. This allows us to display infinitely many geometrically distinct families of solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations on the smooth 4-manifolds \({S^2 \times S^2}\) and \({{\mathbb{CP}}_2\#\overline{\mathbb{CP}}_2}\).