Metric flips with Calabi ansatz (Q412051)

The goal of the paper is the construction of examples of small contractions and resolution of singularities by the Kähler-Ricci flow. The authors consider the projective manifold \(X_{m,n}=\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^n}\oplus \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^n}(-1)^{\oplus(m+1)} )\), the subvariety \(P_0\) which is the zero section of the projection \(X_{m,n}\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^n\) and the map \(\phi_{m,n}: X_{m,n}\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^{(m+1)(n+1)}\), which is an immersion outside \(P_0\) and contracts \(P_0\) to a point. Let \(Y_{m,n}\) be the image of \(\phi_{m,n}\). Then \(Y_{m,n}\) is the projective cone in \(\mathbb{P}^{(m+1)(n+1)}\) over \(\mathbb{P}^m\times\mathbb{P}^n\) via the Segre map for \(m\geq 1\). Finally, they take the Kähler-Ricci flow \(\omega\) defined by \(\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\omega=-\mathrm{Ric}(\omega), \;\omega_{|t=0}=\omega_0\). Under the assumption that on \(X_{m,n}\) the initial metric satisfies the Calabi symmetry condition they characterize the limiting behaviour of the Kähler-Ricci flow \(\omega\) as \(t\rightarrow T\): Either the flow shrinks to a point, collapses to \(\mathbb{P}^n\) or contracts a subvariety of dimension \(m+1\) in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. The paper ends with the description of how the Kähler-Ricci flow resolves the cone singularities of \(Y_{m,n}\) for \(m>n\geq 1\) in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense.