Type: Article
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Citations: 175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11511-014-0116-3
sun unrealistic, numbers.This is connected to certain definite and tractable mathematical questions which we take up briefly again at the very end of the paper, where we formulate a conjectural sharper version of Theorem 1.1 (Conjecture 5.15).We finish this introduction with some words about the origins of this paper.While the question that we answer in Theorem 1.1 is a central one in the field of Kähler-Einstein geometry, it is not something that the authors have focused on until recently.The main construction in this paper emerged as an off-shoot of a joint project by the first-named author and Xiuxiong Chen, studying the slightly different problem of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities along a divisor.A companion article by the first-named author and Chen, developing this related theory, will appear shortly.Both authors are very grateful to Chen for discussions of these matters, extending over many years.We are also very