Let
be a compact Kähler manifold with a given ample line bundle
.
Donaldson proved an inequality between the Calabi energy of a Kähler metric in
and
the negative of normalized Donaldson–Futaki invariants of test configurations of
. He
also conjectured that the bound is sharp.
We prove a metric analogue of Donaldson’s conjecture; we show that if
we enlarge the space of test configurations to the space of geodesic rays in
and
replace the Donaldson–Futaki invariant by the radial Mabuchi K-energy
, then
a similar bound holds and the bound is indeed sharp. Moreover, we construct explicitly a
minimizer of
.
On a Fano manifold, a similar sharp bound for the Ricci–Calabi energy is also
derived.
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