Coercivity conjecture for the analytic torsion functional

Let XX be a polarized manifold with reference Kähler form ω0\omega_{0}, let Hω0\mathcal{H}_{\omega_{0}} be the space of Kähler potentials, and let Fω0\mathcal{F}_{\omega_{0}} be the corresponding functional. Assume that Aut0(X)\operatorname{Aut}_{0}(X) is trivial and that Fω0\mathcal{F}_{\omega_{0}} admits a critical point in Hω0\mathcal{H}_{\omega_{0}}.

Analytic torsion coercivity conjecture. Under these assumptions, Fω0\mathcal{F}_{\omega_{0}} is coercive.

The conjecture is motivated by the analogous principle for the anticanonical polarization: existence of a critical point should imply coercivity when there are no continuous automorphisms. The supplied text does not give a resolution.

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

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