Minimal hypersurfaces in Kaehler scalar flat ALE spaces

Abstract

In this paper we give a new general method to describe all Kaehler scalar flat metrics on $U(n)$-invariant domains of C^n in a way to be able to detect easily whether it can be completed to larger domains and which kind of ends they can have. This new approach makes possible to decide whether the corresponding metrics contain a minimal sphere among the standard euclidean ones. We will show also how to check the stability (i.e. minimizing volume up to second order) of such submanifolds. We apply the present analysis to a comparison between Penrose Inequality, which requires the presence of a stable minimal hypersurface, and Hein-LeBrun's, which requires the ambient space to be Kaehler and predicts the existence of a special divisor, and we will show that Penrose Inequality does indeed hold in any dimension for this class of manifolds, and that the two inequalities are indeed incomparable in that for these manifolds a stable minimal surface and a divisor never coexist.