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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 222


Chenyang Xu

University of Utah

Title

Special test configurations and K-stability

Abstract

The famous Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture says that a polarized variety (X,L) admits a constant scalar curvature metric if and only if it is K-polystable. The last notion is a completely algebraic notion which I will concentrate on in this talk. More precisely, we will study the K-stability question of Fano varieties. Our new point is that we will put in the machinery of the Minimal Model Program to modify the test configuration and show that the DF-invariants are decreasing. In particular, we answer a conjecture of Tian under the assumption that the Picard number is 1. This is a joint work with Chi Li.

Algebraic Geometry

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