Lectures on Stability and Constant Scalar Curvature
Differential Geometry
2008-02-28 v2 Complex Variables
Abstract
An introduction is provided to some current research trends in stability in geometric invariant theory and the problem of Kaehler metrics of constant scalar curvature. Besides classical notions such as Chow-Mumford stability, the emphasis is on several new stability conditions, such as K-stability, Donaldson's infinite-dimensional GIT, and conditions on the closure of orbits of almost-complex structures under the diffeomorphism group. Related analytic methods are also discussed, including estimates for energy functionals, Tian-Yau-Zelditch approximations, estimates for moment maps, complex Monge-Ampere equations and pluripotential theory, and the Kaehler-Ricci flow
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.4179,
title = {Lectures on Stability and Constant Scalar Curvature},
author = {D. H. Phong and Jacob Sturm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4179},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
85 pages, minor corrections added