Concavity of Perelman's \(\mathcal {W}\)-functional over the space of Kähler potentials (Q1682780)

The concavity of Perelman's \(\mathcal{W}\)-functional over a neighborhood of a Kähler-Ricci soliton inside the space of Kähler potentials is a direct consequence of the author's solution of the variational stability problem for Kähler-Ricci solitons. In the present paper, he provides a new and rather simple proof of this particular fact. The new proof uses in minor part some elementary formulas obtained in previous works [Complex Manifolds 3, 41--144 (2016; Zbl 1335.53063); Adv. Math. 290, 15--35 (2016; Zbl 1358.53069)].