Paper · Sep 6, 2026

On Miyaoka-Yau Inequalities and Weil-Petersson Metrics

Alexander Bednarek

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We use the Kähler-Ricci flow to give alternate proofs of several known Miyaoka-Yau inequalities and slope semi-stabilities, in particular, for the case of compact Kähler manifolds with semi-ample canonical line bundles and K-semistable Fano manifolds. Moreover, when the canonical line bundle is semi-ample, and the Kodaira dimension is , we prove the Miyaoka-Yau quantity is equal to the intersection of the Weil-Petersson metric and the Fubini-Study metric on the canonical model. Consequently, equality holds in the Miyaoka-Yau inequality if and only if the pluricanonical map is a holomorphic fibre bundle.

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