Chi Li

This is largely an exposition article that expands the author's talk at the Xiamen International Conference on Geometric Analysis in June 2021. We first survey the author's joint work with Jiyuan Han on the Yau-Tian-Donaldson (YTD) conjecture for $g$-weighted Kähler-Ricci solitons ($g$-solitons). We then review recent works of Apostolov-Canderbank-Jubert-Lahdili which establish a connection between a particular $g$-soliton equation with Ricci-flat Kähler cone metrics (or equivalently Sasaki-Einstein metrics). The main interest in this connection is the transformation of a possibly irregular Sasaki-Einstein metric to a particular $g$-soliton equation on any quasi-regular quotient. We will revisit this transformation by understanding how the corresponding transversal complex Monge-Ampère equations are transformed under the deformation of Reeb vector fields. Finally we explain how this PDE/pluripotential point of view allows one to prove the YTD conjecture for general Fano cones by combining the YTD conjecture for $g$-solitons on log Fano pairs and the above transformation.

We prove that for any $\mathbb{Q}$-Fano variety $X$, the special $\mathbb{R}$-test configuration that minimizes the $H$-functional is unique and has a K-semistable $\mathbb{Q}$-Fano central fibre $(W,\xi )$. Moreover there is a unique K-polystable degeneration of $(W,\xi )$. As an application, we confirm the conjecture of Chen-Sun-Wang about the algebraic-uniqueness for Kähler-Ricci flow limits on Fano manifolds, which implies that the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of the flow does not depend on the choice of initial Kähler metrics. The results are achieved by studying algebraic optimal degeneration problems via new functionals of real valuations, which are analogous to the minimization problem for normalized volumes.

Let $(X,D)$ be a log variety with an effective holomorphic torus action, and $\Theta$ be a closed positive $(1,1)$-current. For any smooth positive function $g$ defined on the moment polytope of the torus action, we study the Monge-Ampère equations that correspond to generalized and twisted Kähler-Ricci $g$-solitons. We prove a version of Yau-Tian-Donaldson (YTD) conjecture for these general equations, showing that the existence of solutions is always equivalent to an equivariantly uniform $\Theta$-twisted $g$-Ding-stability. When $\Theta$ is a current associated to a torus invariant linear system, we further show that equivariant special test configurations suffice for testing the stability. Our results allow arbitrary klt singularities and generalize most of previous results on (uniform) YTD conjecture for (twisted) Kähler-Ricci/Mabuchi solitons or Kähler-Einstein metrics.