Calabi flow, geodesic rays, and uniqueness of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2014.180.2.1zbMATH Open1307.53058arXiv1004.2012OpenAlexW2964108505MaRDI QIDQ742905FDOQ742905

X.-X. Chen, Song Sun

Publication date: 19 September 2014

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that constant scalar curvature K"ahler metric "adjacent" to a fixed K"ahler class is unique up to isomorphism. This extends the uniqueness theorem of Donaldson and Chen-Tian, and formally fits into the infinite dimensional G.I.T picture described by Donaldson. We prove that the Calabi flow near a cscK metric exists globally and converges uniformly to a cscK metric in a polynomial rate. Viewed in a K"ahler class, the Calabi flow is also shown to be asymptotic to a smooth geodesic ray at infinity. This latter fact is also interesting in the finite dimensional analogue, where we show that the downward gradient flow of the Kempf-Ness function in a semi-stable orbit is asymptotic to the direction of optimal degeneration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2012

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zbMATH Keywords

Calabi flowconstant scalar curvature metricssemi-stabilityKempf-Ness theoremKähler metricsKähler-Einstein

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformations of complex structures (32G05) Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Notions of stability for complex manifolds (32Q26)

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