An obstruction to the existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics
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instance of: scholarly article
title: An obstruction to the existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics
zbMATH Open document ID: 1125.53057
author: Julius Ross
author: Richard P. Thomas
published in: Journal of Differential Geometry
publication date: 2006-07-11T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412518
review text: The problem of existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler (cscK) metrics in a given Kähler class is a classical one in differential geometry. The simplest obstruction is provided by the non-vanishing of the Futaki invariant (a character on the Lie algebra of holomorphic vector fields). Further, \textit{G. Tian} [Invent. Math. 130, No.~1, 1--37 (1997; Zbl 0892.53027)] defined the notion of \(K\)-stability and showed this is an obstruction to the existence of cscK metrics. Recall that the definition of \(K\)-stability of a polarized Kähler manifold involves the so-called test-configurations with general fibre \((X,L)\). These are flat projective families of \(\mathbb Q\)-polarized schemes \(({\mathcal X},{\mathcal L})\to\mathbb C\) together with an action of \(\mathbb C^*\) on \(({\mathcal X}, {\mathcal L})\) covering the usual one on \(\mathbb C\) such that the fibre \(({\mathcal X}_t, {\mathcal L}_t)\) is isomorphic with \((X,L)\) for each \(t\neq 0\). The \(K\)-(semi)stability is assured by the (non-vanishing) positivity of a Donaldson-Futaki invariant \(F_1\) [see \textit{S. K. Donaldson}, J. Differ. Geom. 59, No. 3, 479--522 (2001; Zbl 1052.32017)] which can also be interpreted in terms of Mumford weight function in GIT. What is known for the moment is that \(K\)-semistability is a necessary condition for the existence of cscK metrics (Donaldson). Restricting to analytic test configuration leads to the notions of analytic \(K\)-(semi)stability. Finally, analytic \(K\)-polystability means analytic \(K\)-semistability together with the condition that any analytic test configuration with \(F_1=0\) is a product configuration. The main conjecture in the field is that for a polarized manifold \((X,L)\), \(K\)-polystability is equivalent with the existence of a cscK metric in \(c_1(L)\) (Yau-Tian-Donaldson). The new approach this paper brings in is considering a new notion, the slope stability, defined by analogy with vector bundles stability. To this end, the author…
reviewed by: Liviu Ornea
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32Q15
zbMATH DE Number: 5039964
zbMATH Keywords: scalar curvature
zbMATH Keywords: polarized manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: Kähler metric
zbMATH Keywords: slope stability
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1747547793
Wikidata QID: Q115197723
arXiv ID: math/0412518
DOI: 10.4310/JDG/1143593746
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