Quot-scheme limit of Fubini-Study metrics and Donaldson's functional for vector bundles
Quot-scheme limit of Fubini-Study metrics and Donaldson's functional for vector bundles
For a holomorphic vector bundle $E$ over a polarised K\"ahler manifold, we establish a direct link between the slope stability of $E$ and the asymptotic behaviour of Donaldson's functional, by defining the Quot-scheme limit of Fubini-Study metrics. In particular, we provide an explicit estimate which proves that Donaldson's functional is …