Weak geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics (Q2391650)

Let \((X,\omega_0)\) be a connected compact Kähler manifold of dimension \(m>0\). In the 1980's, Mabuchi discovered that there is a natural infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold structure on the set \(H_0\) of smooth Kähler forms cohomologous to \(\omega_0\), and on the set \(H=\{v\in C^\infty(X) : \omega_0+\partial\overline{\partial}v >0\}\) of smooth strongly \(\omega_0\)-plurisubharmonic functions. In general there is no geodesic of class \(C^2\) between two point in \(H\), resp. in \(H_0\). It is of interest to know whether two points in \(H\) can be connected at least by a weak geodesic. Let \(S=\{s\in \mathbb{C} : 0<\text{Im}s<1 \}\) and \(\omega\) the pullback of \(\omega_0\) by the projection \(\overline{S}\times X\to X\). By a weak, or generalized, geodesic connecting, say, \(0,v\in H\) one then means an \(\omega\)-plurisubharmonic solution \(u: \overline{S}\times X\to \mathbb{R}\) of the problem (1): \((\omega+i\partial\overline{\partial} u)^{m+1}=0\), \(u(s+\sigma,x)=u(s,x)\), if \((s,x)\in \overline{S}\times X\), \(\sigma\in \mathbb{R}\), and \(u(s,x)=0\), if \(\text{Im}s=0\), \(u(s,x)=v(x)\), if \(\text{Im}s=1\). In this work, the authors show that the problem (1) may have a solution with \(\partial\overline{\partial} u\) bounded, but in general it will not have a solution with \(\partial\overline{\partial} u\) continuous.