The Dirichlet and the weighted metrics for the space of Kähler metrics (Q889938)

If \(\left( M,\omega\right) \) is a compact closed Kähler manifold of complex dimension \(n\), then \(\mathcal{H}\) denotes the class of all Kähler manifolds from the Kähler class \(\Omega\) of \(\omega\). The class \(\mathcal{H}\) is in the one-to-one correspondence with the space of potentials subject to a normalization condition \(\mathcal{H}=\left\{ \varphi\in C^{\infty}\left( M,\mathbb{R}\right) :\omega+i\partial\overline{\partial}\varphi>0,D_{\omega }\left( \varphi\right) =0\right\} \), where \(D_{\omega}\left( \varphi\right) =\sum_{j=0}^{n}\frac{n!}{\left( j+1\right) !\left( n-i\right) !}\int_{M}\varphi\omega^{n-i}\wedge\left( \partial\overline {\partial}\varphi\right) ^{i}\). Also, \(\mathcal{H}\) is in the one-to-one correspondence with the space of Kähler one-forms \(\mathcal{A}=\left\{ d\phi :\omega_{\phi}\text{ is a Kähler metric in }\mathcal{H} \right\} \) (Lemma 3.1). Then the Dirichlet metric on \(T_{d\phi}\mathcal{A}\) is defined by \(\left\langle d\psi,d\chi\right\rangle |_{g_{\phi}}=\int _{M}\left( d\psi,d\chi\right) |_{g_{\phi}}\frac{\omega_{\phi}^{n}}{n!}\). The authors mention that the motivation of the study of the Dirichlet metric comes from [\textit{X. Chen} and the second author, J. Reine Angew. Math. 674, 195--251 (2013; Zbl 1372.53075)]. The authors derive the explicit formula for the sectional curvature of the Dirichlet metric. The main result of the paper (Theorem 3.9) states the absolute value of the sectional curvature of the Dirichlet metric in the direction of the span of \(\psi_{1},\psi_{2}\) is bounded by a positive constant \(K\) which depends only on \(\phi\) and one of the generators \(\psi\) of the two-dimensional section \(\text{Span}\left\{ \psi_{1},\psi_{2}\right\} \). The authors also prove that the \(K\)-energy (or Mabuchi energy) \(\nu\left( \phi\right) =\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{1}\int_{M}\left( d\phi_{t},df\right) |_{g_{\phi}} \frac{\omega_{\phi}^{n}}{n!}\) is convex at a point \(d\phi\left( t_{0}\right) \) which corresponds to a constant curvature Kähler metric (Proposition 3.23). In Section 5, the authors consider the constant weight metrics. As an application, the authors present an alternative proof of Calabi's uniqueness theorem for Kähler-Einstein metrics (Theorem 5.9).