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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 4:30pm

Xiuxiong Chen

University of Wisconsin

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

It is well known that the Calabi energy is locally convex near an extremal Kaehler metric and it is a very interesting and difficult question if the Calabi energy in the Kaehler class is bounded below by the energy of the extremal metric. According to a theorem of Calabi, an extremal Kaehler metric automatically exhibits the maximal symmetry possible allowed by the underlying complex structure. In the 1990s, it is proved that the Calabi energy of the invariant Kaehler metrics (maximal possible symmetric...) is bounded below by the absolute value of the Futaki invariant (evaluated at the Canonical extremal vector field). It is conjectured that the same lower bound holds for general metrics. In this talk, I will answer this question affirmatively.