Tian's partial \(C^0\)-estimate implies Hamilton-Tian's conjecture (Q2656131)

Much progress has been made over the last decade in understanding the structure of Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Fano manifolds in various situations. In higher dimensions, these are all essentially motivated by the fundamental work of \textit{S. Donaldson} and \textit{S. Sun} [Acta Math. 213, No. 1, 63--106 (2014; Zbl 1318.53037)], proving part of a conjecture of Tian. The general thrust of the results is that in various situations, Gromov-Hausdorff limits naturally admit the structure of Fano manifolds (or singular Fano varieties) which admit some natural metric themselves (a Kähler-Ricci soliton or a Kähler-Einstein metric). Such results are very important due to the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture, which relates the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics to K-stability. The paper under review gives a new proof of a result of \textit{X. Chen} and \textit{B. Wang} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 65, No. 10, 1399--1457 (2012; Zbl 1252.53076)] (and later \textit{R. H. Bamler} [Ann. Math. (2) 188, No. 3, 753--831 (2018; Zbl 1410.53063)]) on Gromov-Hausdorff limits along the Kähler-Ricci flow, who proved what is known as the Hamilton-Tian conjecture. The proof uses the breakthrough of \textit{G. Liu} and \textit{G. Székelyhidi} [``Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1804.08567}] on Gromov-Hausdorff limits under Ricci curvature lower bounds, but also contains some new ideas related to the geometry of Monge-Ampère equations.