On the K-stability of complete intersections in polarized manifolds (Q633596): Difference between revisions

Deciding which manifolds admit a Kähler constant scalar curvature metric (Kcsc), and for which Kähler class, is an important and highly non-trivial problem in the differential geometry of complex manifolds. Through the work of Donaldson, Futaki, Tian and many other authors the \textit{Futaki invariant} has emerged as the central tool in determining the existence of Kcsc-metrics and its relation with the K-stability of the polarized manifold. Unfortunately, in general it is quite hard to compute the Futaki invariant, and the aim of the paper under review is to give an explicit formula in special cases. More precisely, let \((M, L)\) be a polarized manifold endowed with a \(\mathbb C^*\)-action \(\rho: \mathbb C^* \rightarrow \text{Aut\,}(M)\) that linearizes \(L\). Let furthermore \(X \subset M\) be an invariant complete intersection of sections of holomorphic vector bundles \(E_1, \ldots, E_s\) on \(M\). Then the authors develop a formula for the Futaki invariant \(F(X, L|_X, \rho)\) that depends only on the weights of the sections and holomorphic invariants of the bundles \(E_j\) and \(L\). This formula is especially simple in two cases. 1) \(L\) is the anticanonical bundle \(K_X^*\) and all the vector bundles \(E_j\) are isomorphic to some \(E\) such that \(\det E\) is a rational multiple of \(L\) as a linearized vector bundle. 2) Each \(E_j\) is isomorphic to some power of the polarization \(L\). Note that the given formulas depend on the degree \(d_0(X, L|_X)\) and its equivariant analogue \(a_0(X, L|_X)\), but not on \(a_1\) and \(d_1\), which are much more difficult to compute. As an application, the authors give a new Mukai-Umemura-Tian like example of a Fano fivefold that it is not K-stable, hence not Kähler-Einstein. They also discuss the case of the quintic Del Pezzo threefold and general complete intersections in Grassmannians.