Stability, energy functionals, and Kähler-Einstein metrics

Abstract: An explicit seminorm

on the vector space of Chow vectors of projective varieties is introduced, and shown to be a generalized Mabuchi energy functional for Chow varieties. The singularities of the Chow varieties give rise to currents supported on their singular loci, while the regular parts are shown to reproduce the Mabuchi energy functional of the corresponding projective variety. Thus the boundedness from below of the Mabuchi functional, and hence the existence of K"ahler-Einstein metrics, is related to the behavior of the current

[Y_{s}]

and the seminorm

along the orbits of

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Let \(\text{Gr}= \text{Gr}(m-n-1,P^N)\) be the space of \(N-n-1\) projective planes in \(P^N\), and \(H^0(\text{Gr},0(d))\) be the space of polynomials of degree \(d\) on Gr. For an \(n\)-dimensional algebraic variety \(X\) in \(P^N\) with Fubiny-study metric \({\mathcal W}\) let \(\text{Chow}(X)= f\in H^0(\text{Gr},0(d))\) be a defining section of the corresponding Chow variety \(Z\subseteq2 \text{Gr}\). The vector \(\text{Chow}(A)\) in general is said to be stable if \(\text{SL}(N+1)\text{Chow}(A)\leq C^{N+1}\) is closed and the stabilizer is finite. The emergence of stability is a necessary condition for the existence of canonical metrics such as Fubini-Study or Kähler-Einstein one. As to these metrics, \textit{G. Tian} [Commun. Anal. Geom. 2, No. 2, 239--265 (1994; Zbl 0846.32019)] has noted that there is an asymptotic equivalence between a Lagrangian for constant scalar curvature metrics, namely, Mabuchi energy, and a norm \(\|\;\|_Q\) on the space of stable \(\text{Chow}(X)\). In this paper the author assigns a new norm \(\|\;\|_\#\) to the space of \(\text{Chow}(X)\) to which now corresponds a singular Chow variety \(Z\), and presents the generalized Mabuchi energy \({\mathcal V}_{\sigma}^\#\) of \(Z\) for \(\sigma\in \text{SL}(N+1,C)\) as follows: Let \(\xi_\sigma\) be a function on \(P^N\) defined by \(\xi_\sigma(z)=\log|\sigma z|^2/ |z|^2\). Then the generalized Mabuchi energy \({\mathcal V}^\#_{\mathcal W}(\xi_\sigma)\) on \(X\) in \(P^N\) is shown to be of the form \[ {\mathcal V}_{\mathcal W}^\#(\xi_\sigma) =\frac{D(m+2)(d-1)}{V(m+1)} \log\frac{\|\sigma\cdot\text{Chow}(X) \|^2_\#} {\|\text{Chow}(X)\|^2_\#}, \] where \(m+1=(N-n)(n+1)\) and \(D\) denote the dimension of \(Gr\), and \(V= \text{vol}(Z)\). Thus, if \(Z_s\) is the singular locus of \(Z\) and \(z\) belongs to \(Z/Z_s\), then for \(\xi_\sigma(z)\) now written as \(\Phi_0(z)\) the form \({\mathcal V}_{\mathcal W}^\#(\Phi_\sigma)\) reveals the required generalized Mabuchi energy of our singular Chow variety \(Z\).

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