Abstract
A guiding principle in Kähler geometry is that the infinite-dimensional symmetric space ℋ of Kähler metrics in a fixed Kähler class on a polarized projective Kähler manifold M should be well approximated by finite-dimensional submanifolds ßk ⊂ ℋ of Bergman metrics of height k (Yau, Tian, Donaldson). The Bergman metric spaces are symmetric spaces of type Gℂ=G where G=U(dk+1) for certain dk This article establishes some basic estimates for Bergman approximations for geometric families of toric Kähler manifolds. The approximation results are applied to the endpoint problem for geodesics of H, which are solutions of a homogeneous complex Monge–Ampère equation in A×X, where A ⊂ C is an annulus. Donaldson, Arezzo and Tian, and Phong and Sturm raised the question whether H-geodesics with fixed endpoints can be approximated by geodesics of Bk. Phong and Sturm proved weak C0-convergence of Bergman to Monge–Ampère geodesics on a general Kähler manifold. Our approximation results show that one has C2.A × X convergence in the case of toric Kähler metrics, extending our earlier result on CP1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 295-358 |
Number of pages | 64 |
Journal | Analysis and PDE |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Analysis
- Numerical Analysis
- Applied Mathematics
Keywords
- Bergman kernels
- Kahler metrics
- Monge–ampere
- Toric varieties