Einstein-Kähler metrics on symmetric toric Fano manifolds (Q4256399)

Let \(X\) be an \(n\)-dimensional compact complex toric manifold with negative canonical bundle, and let \(T\simeq (\mathbb C^{*})^{n}\) be a maximal torus in the complex Lie group \(\Aut(X)\) of biholomorphisms of \(X\). There is a canonical linear representation of the Weyl group \(N(T)/T\) on the group of algebraic characters of \(T\), and the authors call \(X\) symmetric if the trivial character is the only fixed point of this action. As the main result of the article the authors prove: If \(X\) is symmetric, then it admits an Einstein-Kähler metric. To find an Einstein-Kähler metric on \(X\) one has to solve a special complex Monge-Ampère equation for smooth real-valued functions on \(X\). In connection with solutions of this equation \textit{G. Tian} [Invent. Math. 89, 225-246 (1987; Zbl 0599.53046)] has introduced a scalar invariant \(\alpha_{G}(X)\) with respect to a compact subgroup \(G\) of \(\Aut(X)\). He has proved that \(X\) admits an Einstein-Kähler metric if \(\alpha_{G}(X) > \frac{n}{n+1}\). The authors choose a special maximal compact subgroup \(G\) of \(N(T)\) and show by subtile considerations that \(\alpha_{G}(X)\geq 1\) if \(X\) is symmetric. In a final section the authors give a series of examples of symmetric toric compact complex manifolds \(X\) with negative canonical bundle which includes (besides projective space) any irreducible \(X\) of dimension \(n\leq 4\).