Donaldson's energy lower-bound conjecture for the Kähler metric space

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Let VV be a Kähler manifold, let H\mathcal{H} be the space of Kähler potentials, and let H0\mathcal{H}_0 denote its normalized subspace. For a normalized ϕH0\phi\in\mathcal{H}_0, let ϕ~t\widetilde{\phi}_t, t[0,1]t\in[0,1], be any path from 00 to ϕ\phi in H\mathcal{H}, and let dμϕ~td\mu_{\widetilde{\phi}_t}, dμϕd\mu_\phi, and dμ0d\mu_0 be the corresponding volume measures. Donald's energy lower-bound conjecture. There is a constant MM such that

01V(dϕ~dt)2dμϕ~tdtM1(max(ϕ>0ϕdμϕ,ϕ<0ϕdμ0))2.\int_0^1\int_V\left(\frac{d\widetilde{\phi}}{dt}\right)^2d\mu_{\widetilde{\phi}_t}\,dt\geq M^{-1}\left(\max\left(\int_{\phi>0}\phi\,d\mu_\phi,-\int_{\phi<0}\phi\,d\mu_0\right)\right)^2.

This lower bound would imply positivity of the path-energy infimum for distinct endpoints and hence help establish that H\mathcal{H} is a metric space. The supplied text does not state whether this quantitative conjecture is resolved.

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Xiuxiong Chen, “The Space of Kaehler metrics”, arXiv:math/0007057 (2000).

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