On sharp lower bounds for Calabi type functionals and destabilizing properties of gradient flows

Abstract

Let $X$ be a compact Kähler manifold with a given ample line bundle $L$. In \cite{Don05}, Donaldson proved that the Calabi energy of a Kähler metric in $c_1(L)$ is bounded from below by the supremum of a normalized version of the minus Donaldson--Futaki invariants of test configurations of $(X,L)$. He also conjectured that the bound is sharp. In this paper, we prove a metric analogue of Donaldson's conjecture, we show that if we enlarge the space of test configurations to the space of geodesic rays in ${\mathcal{E}}^2$ and replace the Donaldson--Futaki invariant by the radial Mabuchi K-energy $\mathbf{M}$, then a similar bound holds and the bound is indeed sharp. Moreover, we construct explicitly a minimizer of $\mathbf{M}$. On a Fano manifold, a similar sharp bound for the Ricci--Calabi energy is also derived.

Final version. Statement of Theorem 4.1 corrected. To appear on Analysis & PDE

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