This is largely an expository paper and dedicated to my friend J. Cheeger for his 65th birthday. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of my works on the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds and some related topics. I will describe a program I have been following for the last twenty years. It includes some of my results and speculations which were scattered in my previo...

A Hermitian Einstein-Weyl manifold is a complex manifold admitting a Ricci-flat Kähler covering M̃ , with the deck transform acting on M̃ by homotheties. If compact, it admits a canonical Vaisman metric, due to Gauduchon. We show that a Hermitian Einstein-Weyl structure on a compact complex manifold is determined by its volume form. This result is a conformal analogue of Calabi’s theorem stating ...

A compact quasi-regular Sasakian manifold M is foliated by onedimensional leaves and the transverse space of this characteristic foliation is necessarily a compact Kähler orbifold Z. In the case when the transverse space Z is also Einstein the corresponding Sasakian manifold M is said to be Sasakian η-Einstein. In this article we study η-Einstein geometry as a class of distinguished Riemannian ...

(m,?)-quasi-Einstein N(k)-contact metric manifolds have been studied and it is established that if such a manifold manifold, then the of constant sectional curvature k. Further analysis has done for gradient Einstein soliton, in particular. Obtained results are supported by an illustrative example.

On any given compact manifold M with boundary ∂M , it is proved that the moduli space E of Einstein metrics on M , if non-empty, is a smooth, infinite dimensional Banach manifold, at least when π1(M,∂M) = 0. Thus, the Einstein moduli space is unobstructed. The usual Dirichlet and Neumann boundary maps to data on ∂M are smooth, but not Fredholm. Instead, one has natural mixed boundary-value prob...

In this paper we prove that a conformally compact Einstein manifold with the round sphere as its conformal infinity has to be the hyperbolic space. We do not assume the manifolds to be spin, but our approach relies on the positive mass theorem for asymptotic flat manifolds. The proof is based on understanding of positive eigenfunctions and compactifications obtained by positive eigenfunctions. ...

The aim of the present paper is to study properties of Quasi conformally flat LP-Sasakian manifolds with a coefficient α. In this paper, we prove that a Quasi conformally flat LP-Sasakian manifold M (n > 3) with a constant coefficient α is an η−Einstein and in a quasi conformally flat LP-Sasakian manifold M (n > 3) with a constant coefficient α if the scalar curvature tensor is constant then M ...

The twistor space Z of self-dual positive Einstein manifolds naturally admits two 1-parameter families of Riemannian metrics, one is the family of canonical deformation metrics and the other is the family introduced by B. Chow and D. Yang in [C-Y]. The purpose of this paper is to compare these two families. In particular we compare the Ricci tensor and the behavior under the Ricci flow of these...

It is of fundamental interest to study the geometric and analytic properties of compact Einstein manifolds and their moduli. In dimension 2 these problems are well understood. A 2-dimensional Einstein manifold, (M, g), has constant curvature, which after normalization, can be taken to be −1, 0 or 1. Thus, (M, g) is the quotient of a space form and the metric, g, is completely determined by the ...