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We study critical points of natural functionals on various spaces of almost Hermitian structures on a compact manifold \(M^{2n}\). We present a general framework, introducing the notion of gradient of an almost Hermitian functional. As a consequence of the diffeomorphism invariance, we show that a Schur’s type theorem still holds for general almost Hermitian functionals, generalizing a known fact for Riemannian functionals. We present two concrete examples, the Gauduchon’s functional and a close relative of it. These functionals have been studied previously, but not in the most general setup as we do here, and we make some new observations about their critical points.
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The second author (CS) has been supported by The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) to conduct this research under the TUBITAK-2219-International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program for Turkish Citizens with the project number 1059B192000164. Both authors would like to thank Giovanni Russo and Weiyi Zhang for useful comments.
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The second author, Cem Sayar, has been supported by The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) to conduct this research under the TUBITAK-2219-International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program for Turkish Citizens with the project number 1059B192000164.
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Draghici, T., Sayar, C. Some remarks on almost Hermitian functionals. Ann Glob Anal Geom 65, 13 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-023-09943-8
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