Chebyshev potentials, Fubini–Study metrics, and geometry of the space of Kähler metrics

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12971MaRDI QIDQ6152026zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chenzi Jin, Yanir A. Rubinstein

Publication date 11 March 2024

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13802

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: The Chebyshev potential of a K"ahler potential on a projective variety, introduced by Witt Nystr"om, is a convex function defined on the Okounkov body. It is a generalization of the symplectic potential of a torus-invariant K"ahler potential on a toric variety, introduced by Guillemin, that is a convex function on the Delzant polytope. A folklore conjecture asserts that a curve of Chebyshev potentials associated to a curve in the space of K"ahler potentials is linear in the time variable if and only if the latter curve is a geodesic in the Mabuchi metric. This is classically true in the special toric setting, and in general Witt Nystr"om established the sufficiency. The goal of this article is to disprove this conjecture. More generally, we characterize the Fubini--Study geodesics for which the conjecture is true on projective space. The proof involves explicitly solving the Monge--Amp`ere equation describing geodesics on the subspace of Fubini--Study metrics and computing their Chebyshev potentials.

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