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Stability of the Kähler–Ricci flow in the space of Kähler metrics

Kai Zheng

Vol. 251 (2011), No. 2, 469–497
Abstract

We prove that on a Fano manifold M admitting a Kähler–Ricci soliton (ω,X), if the initial Kähler metric ωφ0 is close to ω in a certain weak sense, then the weak Kähler–Ricci flow exists globally and converges in the sense of Cheeger and Gromov. In particular, φ0 is not assumed to be KX-invariant. The methods used are based on the metric geometry of the space of the Kähler metrics and are potentially applicable to other stability problems of geometric flows near the corresponding critical metrics.

Keywords
Kähler–Ricci flow, space of Kähler metrics, stability
Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 32Q20, 53C25
Secondary: 53C55, 58E11
Milestones
Received: 23 May 2010
Revised: 18 November 2010
Accepted: 23 February 2011
Published: 3 June 2011
Authors
Kai Zheng
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, 100190
China