Calabi flow and projective embeddings

DOI10.4310/JDG/1279114299MaRDI QIDQ987987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joel Fine, Xiaonan Ma, Kefeng Liu

Publication date 24 August 2010

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0155, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1279114299

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi flowmoment mapprojective embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Embedding theorems for complex manifolds (32Q40) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: Let X be a smooth subvariety of CP^N. We study a flow, called balancing flow, on the space of projectively equivalent embeddings of X, which attempts to deform the given embedding into a balanced one. If L->X is an ample line bundle, considering embeddings via H^0(L^k) gives a sequence of balancing flows. We prove that, provided these flows are started at appropriate points, they converge to Calabi flow for as long as it exists. This result is the parabolic analogue of Donaldson's theorem relating balanced embeddings to metrics with constant scalar curvature [JDG 59(3):479-522, 2001]. In our proof we combine Donaldson's techniques with an asymptotic result of Liu-Ma [arXiv:math/0601260v2] which, as we explain, describes the asymptotic behaviour of the derivative of the map FScirc Hilb whose fixed points are balanced metrics.

Review text

Given a complex submanifold \(X\subset\mathbb{CP}^N\), the author defines a flow to deform the given projective embedding through a family of projectively equivalent embeddings, whose fixed points are balanced embeddings. Note that in general a given embedding is projectively equivalent to a balanced one if and only if the Chow point of the embedding is GIT polystable. This flow, called the balacing flow, is simply the gradient flow of the \(SU(N+1)\)-moment map acting on the Chow variety. If now \((X,L)\) is a compact Kähler manifold polarized by an ample line bundle, then we can use the sections of \(L^k\) for high powers \(k\) to embed \(X\) into higher and higher projective spaces, and get a sequence of balancing flows. If we pull back the Fubini-Study metric by these embeddings, we get flows of Kähler metrics \(\omega_k(t)\) cohomologous to \(c_1(L)\). The main question that the author addresses is the asymptotic behaviour of these metrics as \(k\) goes to infinity. Take now any Kähler metric \(\omega\) in \(c_1(L)\) and evolve it into a family \(\omega(t)\) (which exists on some time interval \([0,T]\)) that solves the Calabi flow \[ \frac{\partial\omega(t)}{\partial t}=i\partial\overline{\partial}R(\omega(t)). \] For any \(k\) large take a basis of sections of \(L^k\) which is orthonormal with respect to the \(L^2\) inner product defined by \(\omega\), get a projective embedding of \(X\) and pull back the Fubini-Study metric, to get Kähler metrics \(\omega_k\). Now run the (suitably sped-up) balacing flow starting at \(\omega_k\) and get metrics \(\omega_k(t)\). The main theorem of the paper says that, in this case, if \((X,L)\) has discrete automorphisms, then for any \(0\leq t\leq T\) the metrics \(\omega_k(t)\) converge smoothly to \(\omega(t)\) as \(k\) goes to infinity. This paper is highly influenced by the seminal work of \textit{S. K. Donaldson} [J. Differ. Geom. 59, No. 3, 479--522 (2001; Zbl 1052.32017)], where the ``static version of this problem is solved: constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics (with discrete automorphisms) are limits of balanced metrics. The main technical ingredients of the proof are similar to Donaldson's, except that a more refined analysis of the Bergman kernel is needed. This is provided by the appendix written by K. Liu and X. Ma.

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