New proof of a Calabi’s theorem

Abstract

A Calabi’s theorem says that on a compact Riemann surface, an extremal metric is a constant scalar curvature metric. In this paper, we use a new method to prove this theorem. Then we give an interesting corollary.

Keywords

Extremal metric / compact Riemann surface

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