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Existence and non-uniqueness of constant scalar curvature toric Sasaki metrics

Part of: Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2011

Eveline Legendre
Eveline Legendre*
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques, UQAM, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-ville Montréal (Québec), Canada H3C 3P8 Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France (email: eveline.legendre@cirget.ca)
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We study compatible toric Sasaki metrics with constant scalar curvature on co-oriented compact toric contact manifolds of Reeb type of dimension at least five. These metrics come in rays of transversal homothety due to the possible rescaling of the Reeb vector fields. We prove that there exist Reeb vector fields for which the transversal Futaki invariant (restricted to the Lie algebra of the torus) vanishes. Using an existence result of E. Legendre [Toric geometry of convex quadrilaterals, J. Symplectic Geom. 9 (2011), 343–385], we show that a co-oriented compact toric contact 5-manifold whose moment cone has four facets admits a finite number of rays of transversal homothetic compatible toric Sasaki metrics with constant scalar curvature. We point out a family of well-known toric contact structures on S2×S3 admitting two non-isometric and non-transversally homothetic compatible toric Sasaki metrics with constant scalar curvature.

Keywords

extremal Kähler metricstoric 4-orbifoldsHamiltonian 2-forms

MSC classification

Secondary: 53C25: Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) 58E11: Critical metrics
Type
Research Article
Information
Compositio Mathematica , Volume 147 , Issue 5 , September 2011 , pp. 1613 - 1634
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation Compositio Mathematica 2011

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