Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The supremum of first eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators in a conformal class
- 2 K-Destabilizing test configurations with smooth central fiber
- 3 Explicit constructions of Ricci solitons
- 4 Open Iwasawa cells and applications to surface theory
- 5 Multiplier ideal sheaves and geometric problems
- 6 Multisymplectic formalism and the covariant phase space
- 7 Nonnegative curvature on disk bundles
- 8 Morse theory and stable pairs
- 9 Manifolds with k-positive Ricci curvature
- References
5 - Multiplier ideal sheaves and geometric problems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The supremum of first eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators in a conformal class
- 2 K-Destabilizing test configurations with smooth central fiber
- 3 Explicit constructions of Ricci solitons
- 4 Open Iwasawa cells and applications to surface theory
- 5 Multiplier ideal sheaves and geometric problems
- 6 Multisymplectic formalism and the covariant phase space
- 7 Nonnegative curvature on disk bundles
- 8 Morse theory and stable pairs
- 9 Manifolds with k-positive Ricci curvature
- References
Summary
Abstract
In this expository article we first give an overview on multiplier ideal sheaves and geometric problems in Kählerian and Sasakian geometries. Then we review our recent results on the relationship between the support of the subschemes cut out by multiplier ideal sheaves and the invariant whose non-vanishing obstructs the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds.
Introduction
One of the main problems in Kählerian and Sasakian geometries is the existence problem of Einstein metrics. An obvious necessary condition for the existence of a Kähler-Einstein metric on a compact Kähler manifold M is that the first Chern class c1(M) is negative, zero or positive since the Ricci form represents the first Chern class. This existence problem in Kählerian geometry was settled by Aubin [1] and Yau [58] in the negative case and by Yau [58] in the zero case. In the remaining case when the manifold has positive first Chern class, in which case the manifold is called a Fano manifold in algebraic geometry, there are two known obstructions. One is due to Matsushima [29] which says that the Lie algebra ɧ(M) of all holomorphic vector fields on a compact Kähler-Einstein manifold M is reductive. The other one is due to the first author [16] which is given by a Lie algebra character F : ɧ(M) → ℂ with the property that if M admits a Kähler-Einstein metric then F vanishes identically. Besides, it has been conjectured by Yau [59] that a more subtle condition related to geometric invariant theory (GIT) should be equivalent to the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics.
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- Variational Problems in Differential Geometry , pp. 68 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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