Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano surfaces

We give an exposition of a result of G. Tian, which says that a Fano surface admits a Kähler–Einstein metric precisely when the Lie algebra of holomorphic vector fields is reductive.     

Concavity of minimal L2 integrals related to multiplier ideal sheaves on weakly pseudoconvex Kähler manifolds

In this paper, we present the concavity of the minimal L² integrals related to multiplier ideal sheaves on the weakly pseudoconvex Kähler manifolds which implies the sharp effectiveness results of the strong openness conjecture and a conjecture posed by Demailly and Kollár (2001) on weakly pseudoconvex Kähler manifolds. We obtain the relation between the concavity and the L² extension theorem.

     

Constructions of Kähler–Einstein metrics with negative scalar curvature

We show that on Kähler manifolds with negative first Chern class, the sequence of algebraic metrics introduced by Tsuji converges uniformly to the Kähler–Einstein metric. For algebraic surfaces of general type and orbifolds with isolated singularities, we prove a convergence result for a modified version of Tsuji’s iterative construction.     

K?hler–Einstein metrics on strictly pseudoconvex domains

Extending the results of Cheng and Yau it is shown that a strictly pseudoconvex domain ${M\subset X}$ in a complex manifold carries a complete K?hler–Einstein metric if and only if its canonical bundle is positive, i.e. admits an Hermitian connection with positive curvature. We consider the restricted case in which the CR structure on ${\partial M}$ is normal. In this case M must be a domain in a resolution of the Sasaki cone over ${\partial M}$ . We give a condition on a normal CR manifold which it cannot satisfy if it is a CR infinity of a K?hler–Einstein manifold. We are able to mostly determine those normal CR three-manifolds which can be CR infinities. We give many examples of K?hler–Einstein strictly pseudoconvex manifolds on bundles and resolutions. In particular, the tubular neighborhood of the zero section of every negative holomorphic vector bundle on a compact complex manifold whose total space satisfies c ₁?<?0 admits a complete K?hler–Einstein metric.     

Locally conformally Kähler metrics on certain non-Kählerian surfaces

We show that every Enoki surface, i.e. a non-Kählerian compactification of an affine line bundle over an elliptic curve, admits a locally conformally Kähler metric.     

Ricci-flat Kähler metrics on crepant resolutions of Kähler cones

We prove that a crepant resolution π : Y → X of a Ricci-flat Kähler cone X admits a complete Ricci-flat Kähler metric asymptotic to the cone metric in every Kähler class in ${H^2_c(Y,\mathbb{R})}We prove that a crepant resolution π : Y → X of a Ricci-flat K?hler cone X admits a complete Ricci-flat K?hler metric asymptotic to the cone metric in every K?hler class in H²_c(Y,\mathbbR){H^2_c(Y,\mathbb{R})}. A K?hler cone (X,[`(g)]){(X,\bar{g})} is a metric cone over a Sasaki manifold (S, g), i.e. ${X=C(S):=S\times\mathbb{R}_{ >0 }}${X=C(S):=S\times\mathbb{R}_{ >0 }} with [`(g)]=dr² +r² g{\bar{g}=dr^2 +r^2 g}, and (X,[`(g)]){(X,\bar{g})} is Ricci-flat precisely when (S, g) Einstein of positive scalar curvature. This result contains as a subset the existence of ALE Ricci-flat K?hler metrics on crepant resolutions p:Y? X=\mathbbC<sup>n</sup> /G{\pi:Y\rightarrow X=\mathbb{C}^n /\Gamma}, with G ì SL(n,\mathbbC){\Gamma\subset SL(n,\mathbb{C})}, due to P. Kronheimer (n = 2) and D. Joyce (n > 2). We then consider the case when X = C(S) is toric. It is a result of A. Futaki, H. Ono, and G. Wang that any Gorenstein toric K?hler cone admits a Ricci-flat K?hler cone metric. It follows that if a toric K?hler cone X = C(S) admits a crepant resolution π : Y → X, then Y admits a T <sup>n</sup> -invariant Ricci-flat K?hler metric asymptotic to the cone metric (X,[`(g)]){(X,\bar{g})} in every K?hler class in H²_c(Y,\mathbbR){H^2_c(Y,\mathbb{R})}. A crepant resolution, in this context, is a simplicial fan refining the convex polyhedral cone defining X. We then list some examples which are easy to construct using toric geometry.     

Kähler–Einstein metrics along the smooth continuity method

We show that if a Fano manifold M is K-stable with respect to special degenerations equivariant under a compact group of automorphisms, then M admits a Kähler–Einstein metric. This is a strengthening of the solution of the Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture for Fano manifolds by Chen–Donaldson–Sun (Int Math Res Not (8):2119–2125, 2014), and can be used to obtain new examples of Kähler–Einstein manifolds. We also give analogous results for twisted Kähler–Einstein metrics and Kahler–Ricci solitons.     

Compact complex surfaces and constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics

In this article, I prove the following statement: Every compact complex surface with even first Betti number is deformation equivalent to one which admits an extremal Kähler metric. In fact, this extremal Kähler metric can even be taken to have constant scalar curvature in all but two cases: the deformation equivalence classes of the blow-up of \({\mathbb {P}_2}\) at one or two points. The explicit construction of compact complex surfaces with constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics in different deformation equivalence classes is given. The main tool repeatedly applied here is the gluing theorem of C. Arezzo and F. Pacard which states that the blow-up/resolution of a compact manifold/orbifold of discrete type, which admits cscK metrics, still admits cscK metrics.     

Hopf surfaces: locally conformal Kähler metrics and foliations

In this paper we describe a family of locally conformal Kähler metrics on class 1 Hopf surfaces H _a,ß containing some recent metrics constructed in [GO98]. We study some canonical foliations associated to these metrics, in particular a 2-dimensional foliation E _a,ß that is shown to be independent of the metric. We prove with elementary tools that E _a,ß has compact leaves if and only if a ^m=ß ⁿ for some integers m and n, namely in the elliptic case. In this case we prove that the leaves of E _a,ß explicitly give the elliptic fibration of H _a,ß, and we describe the natural orbifold structure on the leaf space.     

Autodual Einstein Versus Kähler–Einstein

Any strictly pseudoconvex domain in carries a complete Kähler-Einstein metric, the Cheng–Yau metric, with “conformal infinity” the CR structure of the boundary.It is well known that not all CR structures on S³ arise in this way. In this paper, we study CR structures on the 3-sphere satisfying a different filling condition: boundaries at infinity of (complete) selfdual Einstein metrics. We prove that (modulo contactomorphisms) they form an infinite dimensional manifold, transverse to the space of CR structures which are boundaries of complex domains (and therefore of Kähler–Einstein metrics).Received: March 2004 Revision: July 2004 Accepted: August 2004     

A note on kähler — Einstein metrics and Bochner's coordinates

In this paper we prove that if a compact Kähler-Einstein manifold(M, ω with integral Kahler form satisfies a compatibility condition between the domain of definition of the Bochner coordinates and of the diastasis potential, then c1(M) ω0.     

Uniqueness of extremal Kähler metrics

In the infinite dimensional space of Kähler potentials, the geodesic equation of disc type is a complex homogenous Monge–Ampère equation. The partial regularity theory established by Chen and Tian [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 340 (5) (2005)] amounts to an improvement of the regularity of the known $C^{1\text{,}1}$ solution to the geodesic of disc type to almost everywhere smooth. For such an almost smooth solution, we prove that the K-energy functional is sub-harmonic along such a solution. We use this to prove the uniqueness of extremal Kähler metrics and to establish a lower bound for the modified K-energy if the underlying Kähler class admits an extremal Kähler metric. To cite this article: X.X. Chen, G. Tian, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 340 (2005).     

Existence of a complete holomorphic vector field via the Kähler–Einstein metric

In this paper, we study the existence of a complete holomorphic vector field on a strongly pseudoconvex complex manifold admitting a negatively curved complete Kähler–Einstein metric and a discrete sequence of automorphisms. Using the method of potential scaling, we will show that there is a potential function of the Kähler–Einstein metric whose differential has a constant length. Then, we will construct a complete holomorphic vector field from the gradient vector field of the potential function.

     

Einstein–Weyl structures from hyper–Kähler metrics with conformal Killing vectors

We consider four (real or complex) dimensional hyper-Kähler metrics with a conformal symmetry K. The three-dimensional space of orbits of K is shown to have an Einstein–Weyl structure which admits a shear-free geodesics congruence for which the twist is a constant multiple of the divergence. In this case the Einstein–Weyl equations reduce down to a single second order PDE for one function. The Lax representation, Lie point symmetries, hidden symmetries and the recursion operator associated with this PDE are found, and some group invariant solutions are considered.     

Extremal Kähler metrics and energy functionals on projective bundles

In this article, we prove the equivalence of the existence of extremal Kähler metrics and the properness of the modified K-energy on projective bundles. Moreover, we discuss the relations of the lower boundedness of the K-energy, the infimum of the Calabi energy and the extremal polynomials. In particular, the author gives an example where the modified K-energy is bounded from below but not proper.