Greatest Ricci lower bounds of projective horospherical manifolds of Picard number one (Q6174800)

A smooth Fano variety over the complex numbers does not admit necessarily a Kähler-Einstein metric. Those admitting such a metric are characterized in terms of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture, proved by \textit{X. Chen} et al. [J. Am. Math. Soc. 28, No. 1, 183--197 (2015; Zbl 1312.53096); J. Am. Math. Soc. 28, No. 1, 199--234 (2015; Zbl 1312.53097); \textit{X. Chen} et al., J. Am. Math. Soc. 28, No. 1, 235--278 (2015; Zbl 1311.53059)]. A measure of the extent to which a smooth Fano variety is close to be Kähler-Einstein is provided by its greatest Ricci lower bound, first studied by \textit{G. Tian} [Int. J. Math. 3, No. 3, 401--413 (1992; Zbl 0779.53009)] and explicitely defined by \textit{Y. A. Rubinstein} [Adv. Math. 218, No. 5, 1526--1565 (2008; Zbl 1143.53065)]. This invariant is by definition a number in the interval \([0,1]\), and it is \(1\) if and only if the variety admits a Kähler-Einstein metric. If \(G\) is a connected reductive complex algebraic group, then a normal \(G\)-variety is called horospherical if it contains an open \(G\)-orbit isomorphic to a torus bundle over a rational homogeneous variety. The aim of the paper is to compute explicitely the greatest Ricci lower bound of a smooth projective horospherical variety of Picard number one. Smooth projective horospherical varieties of Picard number one have been classified by \textit{B. Pasquier} [Math. Ann. 344, No. 4, 963--987 (2009; Zbl 1173.14028)]. There it is also shown that the automorphism group of such a variety is reductive if and only if the variety is homogeneous, yielding that the variety admits a Kähler-Einstein metric if and only if it is homogeneous. The computation of the greatest Ricci lower bound builds upon a recent result of \textit{T. Delcroix} and \textit{J. Hultgren} [J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 153, 281--315 (2021; Zbl 1490.53087)], who gave a formula for the greatest Ricci lower bound of a smooth Fano horospherical variety using the barycenter of each moment polytope with respect to the Duistermmat-Heckman measure. As a corollary of their result, the authors obtain that the greatest Ricci lower bound of the odd symplectic Grassmannian \(\mathrm{SGr}(n,2n+1)\) can be made arbitrarily small as \(n\) grows.