Extremal Kähler-Einstein metric for two-dimensional convex bodies (Q2318030)

This paper deals with a convex body \(K\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) with barycenter at \(O\) and the corresponding equation of Monge-Ampère type \[ \det D^2\phi= e^{-\phi},\quad \nabla\phi(\mathbb{R}^n)= \text{int}(K),\tag{1} \] where \(\phi\) is a real-valued, smooth and convex function in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), while \(D^2\phi\) is the so-called Kähler-Einstein metric. The equation (1) arises in the theory of toric varieties and in convex analysis. If \(K=S\) is the standard simplex in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), equation (1) possesses a solution that can be written explicitly, and the corresponding Ricci tensor has form form \(\mathrm{Ric}_S= \frac{n-1}{4(n+1)} D^2\phi\). The authors conjecture that the Ricci curvature of \(D^2\phi\) is bounded from above by \(\frac{n-1}{4(n+1)}\) for each convex body \(K\subset\mathbb{R}^n\), i.e., \[ \mathrm{Ric}_{h_K}\le \frac{n-1}{4(n+1)} h_K, \] where \(h_K= \phi_{ij}dx^i dx^j\). The largest value is attained on \(S\) uniformly. This conjecture is proved in the two-dimensional case. Assuming that \(K\) is the unit Euclidean ball, the authors observe that the Ricci curvature is not bounded from below.