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Finite energy pluripotential theory accommodates the variational theory of equations of complex Monge-Amp\`ere type arising in K\"ahler geometry. Recently it has been discovered that many of the potential spaces involved have a rich metric…

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Given a compact K\"ahler manifold, we survey the study of complex Monge-Amp\`ere type equations with prescribed singularity type, developed by the authors in a series of papers. In addition, we give a general answer to a question of…

We construct extremal metrics on the total space of certain destabilising test configurations for strictly semistable K\"ahler manifolds. This produces infinitely many new examples of manifolds admitting extremal K\"ahler metrics. It also…

We consider the Dirichlet problem for the complex Monge--Amp\`ere equation on strongly pseudoconvex K\"ahler manifolds when the right-hand side is decreasing in the solution. Using flow-based arguments, we establish existence of smooth…

We establish the convexity of Mabuchi's K-energy functional along weak geodesics in the space of Kahler potentials on a compact Kahler manifold thus confirming a conjecture of Chen and give some applications in Kahler geometry, including a…

We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of some very general type of degenerate complex Monge-Amp\`ere equations. This type of equations is precisely what is needed in order to construct K\"ahler-Einstein metrics over…

In this paper, we consider a special relative K\"ahler fibration that satisfies a homogenous Monge-Amp\`ere equation, which is called a Monge-Amp\`ere fibration. There exist two canonical types of generalized Weil-Petersson metrics on the…

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We study the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations of incompressible hydrodynamics in two and three spatial dimensions and show how the constraint of incompressiblility leads to equations of Monge--Amp\`ere type for the stream function, when…

We prove the uniqueness, up to a pull-back by an element of a suitable subgroup of complex automorphisms, of the weighted extremal K\"ahler metrics on a compact K\"ahler manifold introduced in our previous work. This extends a result by…

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