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Numerical approximations to extremal toric K\"ahler metrics with arbitrary K\"ahler class

Differential Geometry 2016-01-12 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We develop new algorithms for approximating extremal toric K\"ahler metrics. We focus on an extremal metric on CP22CP2\mathbb{CP}^{2}\sharp2\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^{2}, which is conformal to an Einstein metric (the Chen-LeBrun-Weber metric). We compare our approximation to one given by Bunch and Donaldson and compute various geometric quantities. In particular, we demonstrate a small eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian of the Einstein metric which gives a numerical evidence that the Einstein metric is conformally unstable under the Ricci flow.

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@article{arxiv.1407.1272,
  title  = {Numerical approximations to extremal toric K\"ahler metrics with arbitrary K\"ahler class},
  author = {Stuart James Hall and Thomas Murphy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1272},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

16 pages v2 changes reflecting referees' comments. To appear in Proc. Edin. Math. Soc