• A. Ortu. Moment maps and stability of holomorphic submersions. arXiv preprint: 2407.03246, 2024. Most recent version: here Abstract

  We prove a finite-dimensional moment map property for certain canonical relatively Kähler metrics on holomorphic fibrations, called optimal symplectic connections. We then relate the existence of zeroes of this moment map to the stability of the fibration, where the stability property we consider is a version of K-stability that takes into account the fibration structure, first introduced by Dervan--Sektnan. In particular, we prove that a stable deformation of a fibration admitting an optimal symplectic connection still admits an optimal symplectic connection, through a new approach using the finite-dimensional moment map properties and the moment map flow. We include an appendix with a proof of a result considered by Székelyhidi that a K-polystable deformation of a constant scalar curvature Kähler manifold still admits a constant scalar curvature metric, using the same technique.

• A. Ortu and L. M. Sektnan. Constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics and semistable vector bundles. arXiv preprint: 2406.08284, 2024. Abstract

  We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the projectivisation of a slope semistable vector bundle to admit constant scalar curvature Kähler (cscK) metrics in adiabatic classes, when the base admits a constant scalar curvature metric. More precisely, we introduce a stability condition on vector bundles, which we call adiabatic slope stability, which is a weaker version of K-stability and involves only test configurations arising from subsheaves of the bundle. We prove that, for a simple vector bundle with locally free graded object, adiabatic slope stability is equivalent to the existence of cscK metrics on the projectivisation, which solves a problem that has been open since work of Ross--Thomas. In particular, this shows that the existence of cscK metrics is equivalent to K-stability in this setting. We provide a numerical criterion for the positivity of the Donaldson-Futaki invariant associated to said test configurations in terms of Chern classes of the vector bundle. This criterion is computable in practice and we present an explicit example satisfying our assumptions which is coming from a vector bundle that does not admit a Hermite-Einstein metric.

• A. Ortu. The analytic moduli space of holomorphic submersions. arXiv preprint: 2306.09137, 2023. (To appear in Forum Math. Sigma). Abstract

  We construct a moduli space that parametrises stable proper holomorphic submersions over a fixed compact Kaehler base. Stability is described in terms of the existence of a canonical relatively Kaehler metric on the submersion, called an optimal symplectic connection. The construction of the moduli space combines techniques from geometric invariant theory with the study of the geometric PDE defining an optimal symplectic connection. A special case of this moduli space is the moduli space of vector bundles over a compact Kaehler manifold. We also show that the moduli space is a Hausdorff complex space equipped with a Weil-Petersson type Kaehler metric.

• A. Ortu. Optimal symplectic connections and deformations of holomorphic submersions. arXiv: 2201.12562, 2022. (Adv. Mat. Vol 414 (2023), doi.) Abstract

  We give a general construction of extremal Kaehler metrics on the total space of certain holomorphic submersions, extending results of Dervan-Sektnan, Fine, and Hong. We consider submersions whose fibres are analytically K-seminstable, i.e. they admit a degeneration to Kaehler manifolds with constant scalar curvature, in a way that is compatible with the fibration structure. On these fibrations we phrase a partial differential equation whose solutions, called optimal symplectic connections, represent a canonical choice of a relatively Kaehler metric. We use the notion of an optimal symplectic connection and the geometry related to it to construct Kaehler metrics with constant scalar curvature and extremal metrics on the total space, in adiabatic classes.

My PhD thesis, titled The geometry of holomorphic submersions, their deformations and moduli, can be found here (also on Iris).