Fang's extremal metric conjecture for Dolbeault determinants on the sphere

Let (S2,ω0)(S^{2},\omega_{0}) be the standard round sphere, and let LL be an ample holomorphic line bundle over S2S^{2}. Consider the determinant of the Dolbeault Laplacian as a functional of smooth Hermitian metrics on LL.

Fang's conjecture. The upper bound is achieved precisely by the Fubini–Study metric on LL, up to scaling.

This refines the boundedness conjecture by identifying all maximizers in the spherical ample case. The source presents it as a more precise conjectural form of the boundedness statement.

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Robert J. Berman, “Analytic torsion, vortices and positive Ricci curvature”, arXiv:1006.2988 (2010).

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