Donaldson's existence conjecture for extremal metrics on toric manifolds

Let PRnP\subset \mathbb{R}^{n} be a Delzant polytope, let AA be a smooth function on P\overline{P}, and let LAL_A be the associated linear functional on convex functions. An admissible symplectic potential is a symplectic potential on PP with the prescribed boundary behaviour for the Delzant polytope. Donaldson's existence conjecture. If

LA(f)=0L_A(f)=0

for every affine-linear function ff and

LA(f)>0L_A(f)>0

for every convex function ff that is not affine-linear, then there is an admissible symplectic potential uu satisfying

uijij=A.u_{ij}^{ij}=-A.

This is the proposed sufficiency condition for solving the Abreu equation on a toric manifold. The preceding discussion explains that failure of the condition obstructs existence and that degenerating sequences can produce piecewise-linear convex functions; the conjecture asserts that these are the only obstructions, but the supplied text does not state a resolution.

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S. K. Donaldson, “Kahler geometry on toric manifolds, and some other manifolds with large symmetry”, arXiv:0803.0985 (2008).

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