BALANCED METRICS ON HOMOGENEOUS VECTOR BUNDLES

Abstract

Let E → M be a holomorphic vector bundle over a compact Kähler manifold (M, ω) and let E = E1 ⊕ ⋯ ⊕ Em → M be its decomposition into irreducible factors. Suppose that each Ej admits a ω-balanced metric in Donaldson–Wang terminology. In this paper we prove that E admits a unique ω-balanced metric if and only if [Formula: see text] for all j, k = 1,…, m, where rj denotes the rank of Ej and Nj = dim H0(M, Ej). We apply our result to the case of homogeneous vector bundles over a rational homogeneous variety (M, ω) and we show the existence and rigidity of balanced Kähler embedding from (M, ω) into Grassmannians.