Asymptotically log Fano varieties

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.08.001MaRDI QIDQ887333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanir A. Rubinstein, I. A. Cheltsov

Publication date 28 October 2015

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2503

zbMATH Keywords

conical singularities Fano varieties Kahler edge metrics Kahler-Einstein metric log Fano varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Fano varieties (14J45)

Abstract: Motivated by the study of Fano type varieties we define a new class of log pairs that we call asymptotically log Fano varieties and strongly asymptotically log Fano varieties. We study their properties in dimension two under an additional assumption of log smoothness, and give a complete classification of two dimensional strongly asymptotically log smooth log Fano varieties. Based on this classification we formulate an asymptotic logarithmic version of Calabi's conjecture for del Pezzo surfaces for the existence of K"ahler--Einstein edge metrics in this regime. We make some initial progress towards its proof by demonstrating some existence and non-existence results, among them a generalization of Matsushima's result on the reductivity of the automorphism group of the pair, and results on log canonical thresholds of pairs. One by-product of this study is a new conjectural picture for the small angle regime and limit which reveals a rich structure in the asymptotic regime, of which a folklore conjecture concerning the case of a Fano manifold with an anticanonical divisor is a special case.

Review text

The authors introduce asymptotically log Fano pairs, a generalisation of varieties of Fano type. Let \(X\) be a projective variety such that \(-K_X\) is \(\mathbb Q\)-Cartier, and let \(D\) be a divisor of the form \(D= \sum_{i=1}^r D_i\), where the \(D_i\)s are distinct prime \(\mathbb Q\)-Cartier divisors. The pair \((X, D)\) is (strongly) asymptotically log Fano if for (all) \((\beta_1,\dots, \beta_r)\in (0, 1]^r\) sufficiently small, \((X, \sum (1-\beta_i)D_i)\) has mild (i.e.~klt) singularities and \(-(K_X+\sum (1-\beta_i)D_i)\) is ample. The main result of the article is a complete classification of strongly asymptotically log del Pezzo surfaces (i.e.~\(2\)-dimensional strongly asymptotically log Fano pairs), which is obtained by classical methods in the birational geometry of surfaces. The authors then reorganise their classification by dividing strongly asymptotically log del Pezzo surfaces \((S, C)\) into four families corresponding to the possible positivity properties of \(-(K_S+C)\) (that is: \(-(K_S+C)\sim 0\), \(-(K_S+ C)\not \sim 0\) nef but not big, \(-(K_S+ C)\) nef and big and \(-(K_S+ C)\) ample). The authors formulate an asymptotic logarithmic version of Calabi's conjecture based on this classification. They conjecture that if \((S, C)\) is an asymptotically log del Pezzo surface with \(C\) smooth and irreducible, then \(S\) admits Kähler-Einstein edge (KEE) metrics with angle \(\beta\) along \(C\) for all sufficiently small \(\beta\in (0;1]\) if and only if \(-(K_S+C)\) is not big. After stating some motivation for the conjecture, the authors prove a few cases by direct methods. Some non-existence results are obtained by generalising a criterion of \textit{Y. Matsushima} [Nagoya Math. J. 11, 145--150 (1957; Zbl 0091.34803)] that implies that the automorphism groups of asymptotically log del Pezzo surfaces with KEE metrics are reductive while some existence results are consequences of results of \textit{T. Jeffres} et al. [Ann. Math. (2) 183, No. 1, 95--176 (2016; Zbl 1337.32037)]. Finally, the authors make a conjecture on the existence of KEE metrics on strongly asymptotically log Fano pairs in arbitrary dimension.

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