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Phase Transition of Kähler–Einstein Metrics via Moment Maps

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We study the phase transition of Kähler Ricci-flat metrics on some open Calabi–Yau spaces with the help of the images of moment maps of natural torus actions on these spaces.

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The second author is partly supported by NSFC Grant 11661131005. The authors thank the referee for his careful reading of the manuscript.

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Wang, J., Zhou, J. Phase Transition of Kähler–Einstein Metrics via Moment Maps. Commun. Math. Stat. 6, 389–415 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40304-018-0153-x

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