Weighted K-stability and coercivity with applications to extremal Kahler and Sasaki metrics

Abstract

We show that a compact weighted extremal Kahler manifold (as defined by the third named author) has coercive weighted Mabuchi energy with respect to a maximal complex torus in the reduced group of complex automorphisms. This provides a vast extension and a unification of a number of results concerning Kahler metrics satisfying special curvature conditions, including constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics, extremal Kahler metrics, Kahler-Ricci solitons and their weighted extensions. Our result implies the strict positivity of the weighted Donaldson-Futaki invariant of any non-product equivariant smooth Kähler test configuration with reduced central fibre, a property also known as weighted K-polystability on such test configurations. For a class of fibre-bundles, we use our result in conjunction with the recent results of Chen-Cheng, He, and Han-Li in order to characterize the existence of extremal Kahler metrics and Calabi-Yau cones associated to the total space, in terms of the coercivity of the weighted Mabuchi energy of the fibre. In particular, this yields an existence result for Sasaki-Einstein metrics on Fano toric fibrations, extending the results of Futaki-Ono-Wang in the toric Fano case, and of Mabuchi-Nakagawa in the case of Fano projective line bundles.

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