Type: Article
Publication Date: 2002-06-30
Citations: 164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00014-002-8341-3
In this paper, a new holomorphic invariant is defined on a compact Kähler manifold with positive first Chern class and nontrivial holomorphic vector fields.This invariant generalizes the Futaki invariant.We prove that this invariant is an obstruction to the existence of Kähler-Ricci solitons.In particular, using this invariant together with the main result in [TZ1], we solve completely the uniqueness problem of Kähler-Ricci solitons.Two functionals associated to the new holomorphic invariant are also discussed.The main result here was announced in [TZ2].