Volume minimization and obstructions to solving some problems in Kähler geometry

DOI10.4310/ICCM.2018.V6.N2.A7MaRDI QIDQ2317022zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Akito Futaki, Hajime Ono

Publication date 7 August 2019

Published in ICCM Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01429

zbMATH Keywords

Futaki invariantKähler geometryKähler-Einstein metricRicci soliton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler-Einstein manifolds (32Q20) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: There is an obstruction to the existence of K"ahler -Einstein metrics which is used to define the GIT weight for K-stability, and it has been extended to various geometric problems. This survey paper considers such extended obstructions to the existence problem of K"ahler -Ricci solitons, Sasaki-Einstein metrics and (conformally) Einstein-Maxwell K"ahler metrics. These three cases have a common feature that the obstructions are parametrized by a space of vector fields. We see, in these three cases, the obstructions are obtained as the derivative of suitable volume functionals. This tells us for which vector fields we should try to solve the existence problems.

Review text

From the introduction: ``The existence of a Kähler-Einstein metric on a compact complex manifold \(M\) has been known since 1970's in the case when \(c_1(M)<0\) by \textit{T. Aubin} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. A 283, 119--121 (1976; Zbl 0333.53040)] and \textit{S.-T. Yau} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 31, 339--411 (1978; Zbl 0369.53059)] where the Kähler class is the canonical class \(K_M\), and in the case when \(c_1(M)=0\) by Yau where the Kähler class is an arbitrary positive \((1,1)\)-class. In the remaining case when \(c_1(M)>0\), i.e., in the case when \(M\) is a Fano manifold, the existence of a Kähler-Einstein metric is characterized by a condition called the \(K\)-stability by the recent works of \textit{X. Chen} et al. [J. Am. Math. Soc. 28, No. 1, 235--278 (2015; Zbl 1311.53059)] and \textit{G. Tian} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 68, No. 7, 1085--1156 (2015; Zbl 1318.14038)]. The \(K\)-stability is a condition in geometric invariant theory where the GIT weight, called the Donaldson-Futaki invariant, is defined extending an obstruction, now called the classical Futaki invariant. The present survey paper considers such extended obstructions to the existence problem of Kähler-Ricci solitons, Sasaki-Einstein metrics and (conformally) Einstein-Maxwell Kähler metrics. These three cases have a common feature that the obstructions are parametrized by a space of vector fields.

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