Energy functionals and canonical Kähler metrics

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-07-13715-3zbMATH Open1116.32018arXivmath/0505476MaRDI QIDQ877486FDOQ877486

Jian Song, Ben Weinkove

Publication date: 23 April 2007

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Yau conjectured that a Fano manifold admits a Kahler-Einstein metric if and only if it is stable in the sense of geometric invariant theory. There has been much progress on this conjecture by Tian, Donaldson and others. The Mabuchi energy functional plays a central role in these ideas. We study the E_k functionals introduced by X.X. Chen and G. Tian which generalize the Mabuchi energy. We show that if a Fano manifold admits a Kahler-Einstein metric then the functional E_1 is bounded from below, and, modulo holomorphic vector fields, is proper. This answers affirmatively a question raised by Chen. We show in fact that E_1 is proper if and only if there exists a Kahler-Einstein metric, giving a new analytic criterion for the existence of this canonical metric, with possible implications for the study of stability. We also show that on a Fano Kahler-Einstein manifold all of the functionals E_k are bounded below on the space of metrics with nonnegative Ricci curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505476

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvatureFano manifoldsKähler-Einstein metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler-Einstein manifolds (32Q20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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