Modified extremal Kähler metrics and multiplier Hermitian-Einstein metrics

Abstract

Motivated by the notion of multiplier Hermitian-Einstein metric of type $\ddot{I}ƒ$ introduced by Mabuchi, we introduce the notion of $\ddot{I}ƒ$-extremal Kähler metrics on compact Kähler manifolds, which generalizes Calabi's extremal Kähler metrics. We characterize the existence of this metric in terms of the coercivity of a certain functional on the space of Kähler metrics to show that, on a Fano manifold, the existence of a multiplier Hermitian-Einstein metric of type $\ddot{I}ƒ$ implies the existence of a $\ddot{I}ƒ$-extremal Kähler metric.

25 pages, final version, to appear in J. Geom. Anal