Ricci flow on Kähler-Einstein surfaces. (Q1608557)

The following natural question has long been open in Kähler-Ricci flow: On a compact Kähler-Einstein manifold, does a metric with positive bisectional curvature converge to a Kähler-Einstein metric under Kähler-Ricci flow? In this nice paper, the authors show this to be true in dimension \(n=2\). In subsequent work, the authors prove the result in dimensions \(n\geq 3\). [A sketch of the proof is given in: ``Ricci flow on Kähler manifolds'', C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér., I Math. 332, No. 3, 245--248 (2001; Zbl 0982.53065)]. Their main theorem here is the following: On a Kähler-Einstein surface with positive scalar curvature, if the initial metric has nonnegative bisectional curvature that is positive somewhere, then the Kähler-Ricci flow converges exponentially fast to a Kähler-Einstein metric with constant bisectional curvature. A key element in the proof is the introduction of a family of new functionals on the space of Kähler potentials, which are the Lagrangians of equations involving the symmetric polynomials of the Ricci tensor. The functionals are shown to have uniform lower bounds along the flow, and integral estimates on the curvature are obtained as a corollary. These are applied together with Cao's Harnack inequality and a generalization of Klingenberg's injectivity radius estimate to bound the curvature uniformly, and prove convergence.