Relative K-stability and extremal Sasaki metrics (Q722885)

A relative version of the K-stability of Collins and Székelyhidi is defined to get an obstruction to Sasaki-extremal metrics. This is K-stability relative to a maximal torus of automorphisms. It is proved that the existence of a Sasaki-extremal structure compatible with a polarized cone implies that the polarization is K-semistable. Computing the Donaldson-Futaki invariant for the deformation to the normal cone gives an extension of the Lichnerowicz obstruction, due to Gauntlett, Martelli, Sparks, and Yau, to an obstruction of Sasaki-extremal metrics. The authors give a list of Sasaki manifolds which has families of Sasaki cones of dimension greater than one with no extremal Sasaki metrics. These results can be rephrased in terms of the moduli space of positive Sasaki classes with vanishing first Chern class.