Nash entropy, Calabi energy and geometric regularization of singular Kähler metrics
Bin Guo, Jian Song
TL;DR
This work connects analytic Sobolev bounds on singular Kähler spaces with synthetic Ricci curvature geometry by imposing uniform Nash entropy $\mathcal{N}_{\theta_X, p}(\omega) \le K$ and Calabi energy $\mathcal{Ca}(\omega) \le B$. It establishes uniform Laplacian and Green’s-function estimates, develops a regularization framework via resolutions that preserves these bounds, and uses twisted cscK metrics to approximate singular data. The main results show that the metric completion $(\hat X, d_\omega, \omega^n)$ is a non-collapsed ${\rm RCD}(-1,2n)$ space under a lower Ricci bound in the current sense, and is homeomorphic to the underlying projective variety $X$, with the regular set matching $X^\circ$ and controlled singular-set dimension. The paper also proves a Schwarz lemma and Lipschitz regularity for eigenfunctions in this singular setting, yielding abundant RCD examples topologically and holomorphically equivalent to projective varieties and linking complex-analytic regularization with metric-measure theory.
Abstract
We prove uniform Sobolev bounds for solutions of the Laplace equation on a general family of Kähler manifolds with bounded Nash entropy and Calabi energy. These estimates establish a connection to the theory of RCD spaces and provide abundant examples of RCD spaces topologically and holomorphically equivalent to projective varieties. Suppose $X$ is a normal projective variety that admits a resolution of singularities with relative nef or relative effective anti-canonical bundle. Then every admissible singular Kähler metric on $X$ with Ricci curvature bounded below induces a non-collapsed RCD space homeomorphic to the projective variety $X$ itself.
