3.3 Kählerian polarisation
We specify a polarisation class on the toric manifold . A standard background Kähler metric is (a suitable multiple of) the Fubini-Study metric:
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Our normalisation guarantees that the potential has the asymptotic behaviour
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A general (singular) Kähler metric on is given by a relative potential . Alternatively, one thinks of as a collection of local absolute potentials:
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where is a local potential in a compact region, and give the local potentials near the toric boundary.
We call a convex function on admissible if it satisfies the asymptotic growth condition
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which captures the information of the Kähler class.
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Proposition 3.16. A convex function is admissible if and only if the Kähler current defined by the psh function on extends to a torus invariant Kähler current on with continuous local potentials.
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Proof. (Sketch) Convex functions on correspond to torus invariant psh functions via the log map (cf. Lemma 4.3 below). If is admissible, then near the toric boundary the appropriate local potential extends continuously over the boundary piece by the growth asymptote assumption and convexity, and the extension remains psh. Conversely, the asymptotic condition is dictated by the local boundedness of near the toric boundary pieces.
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A general (singular) Kähler metric on in the polarisation class is given by a potential . The normalising factor is aimed at extracting nontrivial limits as . We can completely analogous define the local potentials:
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which are by definition psh on respective regions.
In particular, we can represent the Calabi-Yau metric on by a potential . The Calabi-Yau condition is
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where the normalising constant
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as (cf. Prop. 3.14).