Ricci-flatness of Kähler-Ricci shrinkers on Fano cones

Let XX be a Fano cone, namely a polarized affine cone equipped with its cone structure and Reeb vector field. A Ricci-flat Kähler cone metric is, by definition in the source, a Kähler-Ricci shrinker when the fibration is the identity.

Fano-cone Ricci-flatness conjecture. On a Fano cone XX, every Kähler-Ricci shrinker is a Ricci-flat Kähler cone metric.

This is a purely differential-geometric converse to the defining implication from Ricci-flat Kähler cone metrics to Kähler-Ricci shrinkers. The source gives heuristic arguments using degeneration to a tangent cone and monotonicity of Perelman's μ\mu-functional, but the assertion remains open.

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Song Sun and Junsheng Zhang, “Kähler-Ricci shrinkers and Fano fibrations”, arXiv:2410.09661 (2025).

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