Mahler measures, Stable Pairs, and the Global coercive estimate for the Mabuchi Functional
arXiv:2105.01240
Abstract
We show that the Mabuchi energy of any polarized manifold (X,L) is (bounded below) proper on the full space of Kahler metrics in the first Chern class of L if and only if (X,L) is asymptotically (semi)stable. In particular it now follows from work of Xiuxiong Chen and Jinguri Cheng that there exists a cscK metric in the first Chern class of L if and only if (X,L) is asymptotically stable, provided the reduced automorphism group of (X,L) is finite.
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1910.06713