A maximal element of a moduli space of Riemannian metrics

Abstract

For a given smooth manifold, we consider the moduli space of Riemannian metrics up to isometry and scaling. One can define a preorder on the moduli space by the size of isometry groups. We call a Riemannian metric that attains a maximal element with respect to the preorder a maximal metric. Maximal metrics give nice examples of self-similar solutions for various metric evolution equations such as the Ricci flow. In this paper, we construct many examples of maximal metrics on Euclidean spaces.