Speaker:Charles Cifarelli (UC Berkeley)
Time:7:50-9:20, November 20, 2020
Room:Tencent Meeting: 950 391 9321,Password:112358 & 5405,the fifth teaching building
Toric manifolds form an important class of complex manifolds with large symmetry. For compact manifolds, there is a well-known procedure which exploits this symmetry to better understand invariant K\ahler metrics. I will give a brief survey of these results on a compact manifold $M$ and then move on to study the situation when $M$ is non-compact, with an emphasis on understanding shrinking gradient K\ahler-Ricci solitons. There is a rich theory for such metrics in the compact setting, but the non-compact case is less well understood. In this talk, after providing some background, I will describe my recent work on the uniqueness of shrinking gradient K\ahler-Ricci solitons on non-compact toric manifolds.