Uniqueness of Kahler—Ricci solitons on compact Kahler manifolds (Q4937463)

The aim, of the paper under review, is to announce results of two preprints of the authors. Let \(M\) be a compact Kähler manifold with metric \(g\) and 2-form \(\omega\). The Kähler metric \(g\) is called a Kähler-Ricci soliton if there exists a holomorphic vector field \(X\) such that \( Ric(\omega) - \omega = L_X \omega \), where \(Ric(\omega)\) is the Ricci form of \(\omega\), and \(L_X\) is the Lie derivative. For \(M\) with positive Chern class \(c_1(M)\), and a holomorphic vector field \(X\), the authors introduce a complex-valued functional \(F_X\) on the space of holomorphic vector fields, which is independent of the choice of the Kähler metric, and such that \(F_X = 0\) if \(M\) admits a Kähler-Ricci soliton \(g\). For \(X =0\) this invariant turns into the Futaki invariant [\textit{A. Futaki}, Invent. Math. 73, 437-443 (1983; Zbl 0514.53054)]. They also solve the uniqueness problem for Kähler-Ricci solitons. Namely, they give a sketch of proof of the following theorem. Theorem. If \(g\) and \(g'\) are two Kähler-Ricci solitons on \(M\) with respect to holomorphic vector fields \(X\) and \(Y\), then there exists an element \(\sigma\) in the identity component of the group of holomorphic transformations such that \(\omega = \sigma^*\omega'\) and \(X = ad_{\sigma^{-1}}(Y)\).