Extremal metrics on toric manifolds and homogeneous toric bundles (Q6042649)

The celebrated Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture which originates from the unsolved case of Calabi conjecture is a deep connection between Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds in Kähler geometry and certain stability conditions in algebraic geometry. To be precise, suppose that \((X, L)\) is a polarized algebraic manifold, \(T\) is a maximal algebraic torus in \(\Aut(X)\). If \((X, L)\) is K-stable and \(T\) is trivial, then the polarization class \(c_1(L)\) admits a cscK metric. When \(L=(K_X)^{-1}\), the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture was affirmatively solved by Chen-Donaldson-Sun and Tian. When \(T\) is nontrivial and \(L\) is general, Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture is still open. However, for general polarized manifolds, an example of Apostolov et al. shows that the original definition of K-stability might not be the correct one. Instead, Székelyhidi introduced the definition of \(\hat{K}\)-polystability which modified the original K-stability by filtration and stated a variant of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture. That is, the existence of an extremal metric (in \(c_1(L)\)) on the manifold \(X\) is equivalent to the relative \(\hat{K}\)-stability of \((X, L)\). The paper under review studies the above filtration version of Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for the cases of toric manifolds and homogeneous toric bundles. The idea is to reduce the prescribed scalar curvature problem to finding a smooth convex solution of (generalized) Abreu equation (fourth-order PDE) with certain boundary condition. The highlight is that the convex function of the optimal destabilizer is bounded and gives a filtration for (homogeneous coordinate ring of) unstable toric manifolds. In summary, the paper under review proves the filtration version of Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for the cases of toric manifolds and homogeneous toric bundles. The method is useful to explore other examples.