Convergence of Bergman geodesics on CP^1

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Abstract: The space of positively curved hermitian metrics on a positive holomorphic line bundle over a compact complex manifold is an infinite-dimensional symmetric space. It is shown by Phong and Sturm that geodesics in this space can be uniformly approximated by geodesics in the finite dimensional spaces of Bergman metrics. We prove a stronger C^2-approximation in the special case of toric (i.e. S^1-invariant) metrics on CP^1.


Let \(L\rightarrow X\) be an ample holomorphic line bundle over a Kähler manifold \(X\). Fix an integer \(N\). For any basis \(\{s_0,s_1,\dots,s_d\}\) of the space of holomorphic sections of \(L^N\), we get the metric \((1/N)\Phi*\omega_{FS}\), where \(\Phi(z) =[s_0(z), s_1(z), \dots, s_d(z)]\in {\mathbb P}^d\) and \(\omega_{FS}\) is the Fubini-Study metric on \({\mathbb P}^d\). The set of such metrics is denoted by \({\mathcal H}_N\), while the space of all \(C^\infty\) Kähler metrics in a fixed Kähler class \([\omega]\) of positive curvature is denoted by \({\mathcal H}\). Then, it is known that the union \(\bigcup_N {\mathcal H}_N\) is \(C^\infty\) dense in \({\mathcal H}\) and that the space \({\mathcal H}\) is an infinite dimensional negatively curved symmetric space relative to a canonically defined Riemannian metric. This article shows that to any geodesic on \({\mathcal H}\), there is canonically associated a geodesic on \({\mathcal H}_N\) that converges \(C^2\) smoothly to the given geodesic for the case \(X={\mathbb P}^1\); the result is a refinement of \(C^0\) convergence given by \textit{D. H. Phong} and \textit{J. Sturm} [Invent. Math. 166, No. 1, 125--149 (2006; Zbl 1120.32026)].



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