Homogeneous Einstein metrics and local maxima of the Hilbert action

Abstract

In this short note, three infinite families of neutrally stable homogeneous Einstein metrics are ruled out as candidates for local maxima of the Hilbert action.

8 pages. Final version to appear in J. Geom. Physics

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• Stability and instability of Ricci solitons
• The stability of standard homogeneous Einstein manifolds
• On a characterization of critical points of the scalar curvature functional

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• The stability of standard homogeneous Einstein manifolds