K-polystability of Q-Fano varieties admitting Kahler-Einstein metrics
Abstract
It is shown that any, possibly singular, Fano variety X admitting a Kahler-Einstein metric is K-polystable, thus confirming one direction of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture in the setting of Q-Fano varieties equipped with their anti-canonical polarization. The proof exploits convexity properties of the Ding functional along weak geodesic rays in the space of all bounded positively curved metrics on the anti-canonical line bundle of X and also gives a new proof in the non-singular case. One consequence is that a toric Fano variety X is K-polystable iff it is K-polystable along toric degenerations iff 0 is the barycenter of the canonical weight polytope P associated to X. The results also extend to the logarithmic setting and in particular to the setting of Kahler-Einstein metrics with edge-cone singularities. Furthermore, applications to geodesic stability, bounds on the Ricci potential and Perelman's entropy functional on K-unstable Fano manifolds are given.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2012
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1205.6214
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1205.6214
- Bibcode:
- 2012arXiv1205.6214B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry
- E-Print:
- v1: 20 pages, v2: 32 pages. Substantial revision. The mean new features are: an explicit formula for the Donaldson-Futaki invariant of a general (and not only special) test configuration in terms of the slope of the Ding functional. v3: 41 pages. Exposition improved and application to geodesic stability added - this is the final version to appear in Inventiones