{
  "id": "0811.0155",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2008-11-03T10:13:22.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-01-09T14:08:23.000Z",
  "title": "Calabi flow and projective embeddings",
  "authors": [
    "Joel Fine"
  ],
  "comment": "Appendix written by Kefeng Liu and Xiaonan Ma. 27pp + 5pp for appendix + 3pp for references. Version 3: results now hold in C-infinity topology, thanks to a stronger version of Liu-Ma's theorem. Their strengthened result now appears as the appendix to this article",
  "categories": [
    "math.DG"
  ],
  "abstract": "Let X be a smooth subvariety of CP^N. We study a flow, called balancing flow, on the space of projectively equivalent embeddings of X, which attempts to deform the given embedding into a balanced one. If L->X is an ample line bundle, considering embeddings via H^0(L^k) gives a sequence of balancing flows. We prove that, provided these flows are started at appropriate points, they converge to Calabi flow for as long as it exists. This result is the parabolic analogue of Donaldson's theorem relating balanced embeddings to metrics with constant scalar curvature [JDG 59(3):479-522, 2001]. In our proof we combine Donaldson's techniques with an asymptotic result of Liu-Ma [arXiv:math/0601260v2] which, as we explain, describes the asymptotic behaviour of the derivative of the map FS\\circ Hilb whose fixed points are balanced metrics.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2009-01-09T14:08:23.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "calabi flow",
      "projective embeddings",
      "donaldsons theorem relating balanced embeddings",
      "balancing flow",
      "ample line bundle"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 27,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008arXiv0811.0155F"
    }
  }
}