Ricci Positive Metrics on the Moment-Angle Manifolds

In this paper, the authors consider the problem of which (generalized) moment-angle manifolds admit Ricci positive metrics. For a simple polytope $P$, the authors can cut off one vertex $v$ of $P$ to get another simple polytope $P_{v}$, and prove that if the generalized moment-angle manifold corresponding to $P$ admits a Ricci positive metric, the generalized moment-angle manifold corresponding to $P_{v}$ also admits a Ricci positive metric. For a special class of polytope called Fano polytopes, the authors prove that the moment-angle manifolds corresponding to Fano polytopes admit Ricci positive metrics. Finally some conjectures on this problem are given.