Transverse K\"{a}hler-Ricci flow and deformations of the metric on the Sasaki space $T^{1,1}$

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the possibility to obtain locally new Sasaki-Einstein metrics on the space $T^{1,1}$ considering a deformation of the standard metric tensor field. We show that from the geometric point of view this deformation leaves transverse and the leafwise metric intact, but changes the orthogonal complement of the Reeb vector field using a particular basic function. In particular, the family of metric obtained using this method can be regarded as solutions of the equation associated to the Sasaki-Ricci flow on the underlying manifold.