A valuative criterion of K-polystability
Linsheng Wang
TL;DR
This work develops a valuative, torus-equivariant criterion for K-polystability of log Fano pairs by constructing a refined data pair $(X_r,\Delta_r;W^{X_r}_\bullet)$ from a maximal torus action and showing that, under the Futaki obstruction vanishing on the cocharacter lattice, stability reduces to the delta-invariant $\delta(X_r,\Delta_{X_r};W^{X_r}_\bullet)$ exceeding 1. The paper proves a sharp Abban–Zhuang-type estimate, builds the toric-refined sequence of models, and proves the main equivalence between K-polystability (or semistability) of $(X,\Delta)$ and the corresponding delta condition on $(X_r,\Delta_r)$; it also provides an almost complete linear-series variant linking to a fixed divisor on $X_r$. Applications include the existence of $g$-solitons for arbitrary weight functions and weight-insensitive stability phenomena in several Fano $\mathbb{T}$-varieties, with concrete moduli-interpretations via GIT. An alternative construction via qdlt Fano-type models is developed to realize the same framework, extending the toolkit for torus-equivariant K-stability analyses.
Abstract
For any log Fano pair with a torus action, we associate a computable invariant to it, such that the pair is (weighted) K-polystable if and only if this invariant is greater than one. As an application, we present examples of Fano varieties admitting $g$-solitons for any weight function $g$.
