AbstractEinstein metrics can be characterised as critical points of the (normalised) total scalar curvature functional. They are always saddle points. However, there are Einstein metrics which are local maxima of the functional restricted to metrics of fixed volume and constant scalar curvature. These are by definition stable Einstein metrics. Stability can equivalently be characterised by a sp...
Abstract:The weighted extremal Kähler metrics introduced by Lahdili provide a vast generalisation of Calabi's extremal Kähler metrics, encompassing many examples of canonical metrics in geometry. In this talk, I will give a quick introduction to these metrics, and discuss the proof that weighted extremal manifolds are relatively weighted K-polystable, in a suitable sense. The proof is along th...