Klartag–Kolesnikov's Ricci curvature conjecture for Kähler–Einstein Hessian metrics

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Let K⊂RnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a convex body with barycenter at the origin, and let Φ\Phi solve the Kähler–Einstein equation

e−Φ=det⁡D2Φ.e^{-\Phi}=\det D^2\Phi.

For the simplex

S={(x1,…,xn)∈Rn   ∑i=1nxi≤1, ∀i, xi≥−1},S=\left\{(x_1,\ldots,x_n)\in\mathbb{R}^n\;\ \sum_{i=1}^n x_i\leq 1,\ \forall i,\ x_i\geq -1\right\},

the corresponding Hessian metric D2ΦD^2\Phi has Ricci tensor n−14(n+1)D2Φ\frac{n-1}{4(n+1)}D^2\Phi. Klartag–Kolesnikov's Ricci curvature conjecture. The Ricci curvature of D2ΦD^2\Phi is bounded by n−14(n+1)\frac{n-1}{4(n+1)}, with the largest value realized uniformly on SS. The existence and uniqueness of solutions to the equation are known under various assumptions, and the conjecture is motivated by the role of the equation in toric geometry and convex analysis. The authors verify the conjecture in dimension two, while its general validity remains open.

References

Primary source

Bo'az Klartag and Alexander V. Kolesnikov, “Extremal Kaehler-Einstein metric for two-dimensional convex bodies”, arXiv:1710.04618 (2017).

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