“…By a conjecture of Yau [40], a necessary and su‰cient condition for M to admit a Kähler-Einstein metric is that M be 'stable in the sense of geometric invariant theory'. Indeed, the problem of using stabil-ity conditions to prove convergence properties of the Kähler-Ricci flow is an area of considerable current interest and we refer the reader to [21], [19], [22], [23], [25], [31], [24], [36] and [5] for some recent advances (however, this list of references is far from complete). One might expect that the su‰ciency part of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture can be proved via the flow (1.1).…”