Kahler geometry of toric varieties and extremal metrics

Details Kahler geometry of toric varieties and extremal metrics Kahler geometry of toric varieties and extremal metrics

1997-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9711014v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

12 pages, submitted to International Journal of Mathematics

Scientific paper

Recently Guillemin gave an explicit combinatorial way of constructing "toric" Kahler metrics on (symplectic) toric varieties, using only data on the moment polytope. In this paper, differential geometric properties of these metrics are investigated using Guillemin's construction. In particular, a nice combinatorial formula for the scalar curvature is given, and the Euler-Lagrange condition for such "toric" metrics being extremal (in the sense of Calabi) is derived. A construction, due to Calabi, of a 1-parameter family of extremal metrics of non-constant scalar curvature is recast very simply and explicitly. Finally, a curious combinatorial formula for convex polytopes, that follows from the relation between the total integral of the scalar curvature and the wedge product of the first Chern class with a suitable power of the Kahler class, is presented.

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