5.3. Smooth metrics and their associated measures [02TU]
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5.3. Smooth metrics and their associated measures
We now discuss the relationship between semipositivity of smooth metrics and concavity of the associated function in the Archimedean case. Moreover we will determine the associated measure.
In this section is either or and we fix a lattice of rank , a complete fan in and a virtual support function on , with and the corresponding toric line bundle and section. Let be the complex analytic space associated to and the analytic line bundle associated to .
Proposition 5.29.
Let be a smooth toric metric on . Then is semipositive if and only if the function is concave.
Proof.
Since the condition of being semipositive is closed, it is enough to check it in the open set . We choose an integral basis of . This determines isomorphisms
Let be the coordinates of and the coordinates of determined by these isomorphisms. With these coordinates the map
is given by
As usual, we denote . Set . Then, the integral valued first Chern class is given by
| (5.30) |
The standard orientation of the unit disk is given by . Hence, the metric of is semipositive if and only if the matrix is semi-negative definite. Since
| (5.31) |
if we write and , then . Therefore is semi-negative definite if and only if is semi-negative definite, hence, if and only if is concave. ∎
The line bundle admits a semipositive metric is and only if is concave. Thus, from now on we assume that is a support function, that is, a concave support function.
Definition 5.32.
Let be a concave function such that is bounded. Let be the Monge-Ampère measure associated to and the lattice . We will denote by the measure on given by
for any Borel subset of .
By its very definition, the measure is bounded with total mass
and the set has measure zero.
Theorem 5.33.
Proof.
Since the measure is given by a smooth volume form and is a set of Lebesgue measure zero, the measure is determined by its restriction to the dense open subset . Thus, to prove equation (5.34) it is enough to show that
| (5.35) |
We use the coordinate system of the proof of Proposition 5.29. We denote by the map induced by the morphism given by . We write for the complex coordinates of . Then
| (5.36) |
Using now equations (5.30), (5.31) and (5.36), we obtain that,
Since the map is the composition of with the projection , integrating with respect to the variables in the domain , taking into account the natural orientation of and the orientation of given by the coordinate system, and the fact that the normalization factor is implicit in the current , we obtain
Thus equation (5.35) follows from Proposition 3.94. Finally, the last statement follows from the fact that, in a compact Abelian group there is a unique Haar measure with fixed total volume. ∎
We end this section recalling how to obtain a toric metric from a non-toric one. Let be a toric line bundle on the toric variety and let be a toric section. If is a smooth, non-necessarily toric, metric, we can average it to obtain a toric metric. This averaging process preserves smoothness and semipositivity. Let be the Haar measure of of total volume 1. Then we define the metric over by
| (5.37) |
Proposition 5.38.
The metric extends to a toric smooth metric over . Moreover, if is semipositive then is semipositive.
Proof.
Let be any toric smooth metric. Then extends to a smooth metric if and only if can be extended to a smooth function on . But we have
and the right-hand side can be extended to a smooth function on the whole . Clearly the metric is toric. Moreover
Therefore, if is semipositive, then is semipositive. ∎