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The natural metric in the Horrocks-Mumford bundle is not Hermitian-Einstein

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The Horrocks-Mumford bundle EE is a famous stable complex vector bundle of rank 2 on 4-dimensional complex projective space. By construction, EE has a natural Hermitian metric h1h_1. On the other hand, stability implies the existence of a Hermitian-Einstein metric in EE which is unique up to a positive scalar. Now the obvious question is if h1h_1 is in fact the Hermitian-Einstein metric. In this note we indicate how to show by computation that this is not the case.

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@article{arxiv.math/0009226,
  title  = {The natural metric in the Horrocks-Mumford bundle is not Hermitian-Einstein},
  author = {O. F. B. van Koert and M. Lubke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0009226},
  year   = {2007}
}

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