Weighted K-stability of polarized varieties and extremality of Sasaki manifolds

TL;DR

This paper develops a notion of weighted K-stability for compact Sasaki manifolds, establishing it as a necessary condition for extremal Sasaki metrics and relating it to K-stability of affine cones, with applications to geometric structures.

Contribution

It introduces a new weighted K-stability framework for Sasaki manifolds and compares it with existing K-stability notions, providing criteria for extremal Sasaki structures.

Findings

Weighted K-stability is necessary for extremal Sasaki metrics.

Weighted K-stability agrees with K-stability of affine cones on specific test configurations.

Obstructions to scalar-flat Kahler cone metrics are strengthened from K-semistability to K-stability.

Abstract

We use the correspondence between extremal Sasaki structures and weighted extremal Kahler metrics defined on a regular quotient of a Sasaki manifold, established by the first two authors, and Lahdili's theory of weighted K-stability in order to define a suitable notion of (relative) weighted K-stability for compact Sasaki manifolds of regular type. We show that the (relative) weighted K-stability with respect to a maximal torus is a necessary condition for the existence of a (possibly irregular) extremal Sasaki metric. We also compare weighted K-stability to the K-stability of the corresponding polarized affine cone (introduced by Collins-Szekelyhidi), and prove that they agree on the class of test configurations we consider. As a byproduct, we strengthen the obstruction to the existence of a scalar-flat Kahler cone metric from the K-semistability to the K-stability on these test configurations. We use our approach to give a characterization of the existence of a compatible extremal Sasaki structure on a principal circle bundle over an admissible ruled manifold, expressed in terms of the positivity of a single polynomial of one variable over a given interval.