Critical points of the area functional of a complex closed curve on the manifold of Kähler metrics
Authors:
Abel Castorena
Affiliation:
CIMAT, AP. 402, CP. 36000 Guanajuato, Gto. Mexico
Abstract:
We consider a compact complex manifold of dimension that admits Kähler metrics and we assume that is a closed complex curve. We denote by the space of classes of Kähler forms that define Kähler metrics of volume 1 on and define by . We show how the Riemann-Hodge bilinear relations imply that any critical point of is the strict global minimum and we give conditions under which there is such a critical point : A positive multiple of is the Poincaré dual of the homology class of . Applying this to the Abel-Jacobi map of a curve into its Jacobian, , we obtain that the Theta metric minimizes the area of within all Kähler metrics of volume 1 on .