Extremal Almost-Kähler Metrics and Seiberg–Witten Theory

Abstract

We show that there exist compact non-Kahler almost-Kahler4-manifolds whose metrics minimize L2-norm of(2/3) s + 2w among all metrics compatible with a fixeddecomposition H2(M, ℝ= H+ ⊕ H−, where s is the scalar curvature and w is the lowest eigenvalue of self-dual Weyl curvature at each point. In particular, the moduli space of such metrics modulo diffeomorphisms is infinite dimensional. This example also shows that LeBrun's estimate of L2-norm of (1 − δ)s + δ · 6won a compact oriented Riemannian4-manifold with a nontrivial Seiberg–Witten invariant cannot beextended over δ = 1/3.