We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition of existence of a Kähler-Einstein metric on a G×G-equivariant Fano compactification of a complex connected reductive group G in terms of the associated polytope. This condition is not equivalent to the vanishing of the Futaki invariant. The proof relies on the continuity method and its translation into a real MongeAmpère equation, using the invariance under the action of a maximal compact subgroup K × K.

We obtain Ricci flat Kähler metrics on complex symmetric spaces of rank two by using an explicit asymptotic model whose geometry at infinity is interpreted in the wonderful compactification of the symmetric space. We recover the metrics of Biquard-Gauduchon in the Hermitian case and obtain in addition several new metrics.

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AbstractWe introduce a class of almost homogeneous varieties contained in the class of spherical varieties and containing horospherical varieties as well as complete symmetric varieties. We develop Kähler geometry on these varieties, with applications to canonical metrics in mind, as a generalization of the Guillemin–Abreu–Donaldson geometry of toric varieties. Namely we associate convex functions with Hermitian metrics on line bundles, and express the curvature form in terms of this function, as well as the corresponding Monge–Ampère volume form and scalar curvature. We provide an expression for the Mabuchi functional and derive as an application a combinatorial sufficient condition of properness similar to one obtained by Li, Zhou and Zhu on group compactifications. This finally translates to a sufficient criterion of existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics thanks to the recent work of Chen and Cheng. It yields infinitely many new examples of explicit Kähler classes admitting cscK metrics.