Remark 5.74 . [02VN]
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Remark 5.74.
For the case , statement (2) in the above result is related to the Guillemin-Abreu classification of Kähler structures on symplectic toric varieties as explained in [Abr03]. By definition, a symplectic toric variety is a compact symplectic manifold of dimension together with a Hamiltonian action of the compact torus . These spaces are classified by Delzant polytopes of , see for instance [Gui95]. For a given Delzant polytope , the possible -invariant Kähler forms on the symplectic toric variety corresponding to are classified by smooth convex functions on satisfying some conditions near the border of . Several differential geometric invariants of a Kähler toric variety can be translated and studied in terms of this convex function, also called the ‘‘symplectic potential’’.
For a smooth positive toric metric on , the Chern form defines a Kähler structure on the complex toric variety . It turns out that the corresponding symplectic potential coincides with minus the function . It would be most interesting to explore further this connection.