We prove a product formula for $delta$-invariant and as an application, we show that product of K-(semi, poly)stable Fano varieties is also K-(semi, poly)stable.
We prove some criteria for uniform K-stability of log Fano pairs. In particular, we show that uniform K-stability is equivalent to $beta$-invariant having a positive lower bound. Then we study the relation between optimal destabilization conjecture and the conjectural equivalence between uniform K-stability and K-stability in the twisted setting.
We prove that on any log Fano pair of dimension $n$ whose stability threshold is less than $frac{n+1}{n}$, any valuation computing the stability threshold has a finitely generated associated graded ring. Together with earlier works, this implies: (a) a log Fano pair is uniformly K-stable (resp. reduced uniformly K-stable) if and only if it is K-stable (resp. K-polystable); (b) the K-moduli spaces are proper and projective; and combining with the previously known equivalence between the existence of Kahler-Einstein metric and reduced uniform K-stability proved by the variational approach, (c) the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture holds for general (possibly singular) log Fano pairs.
Tians criterion for K-stability states that a Fano variety of dimension $n$ whose alpha invariant is greater than $frac{n}{n+1}$ is K-stable. We show that this criterion is sharp by constructing singular Fano varieties with alpha invariants $frac{n}{n+1}$ that are not K-polystable for sufficiently large $n$. We also construct K-unstable Fano varieties with alpha invariants $frac{n-1}{n}$.
We give an algebraic proof of the equivalence of equivariant K-semistability (resp. equivariant K-polystability) with geometric K-semistability (resp. geometric K-polystability). Along the way we also prove the existence and uniqueness of minimal optimal destabilizing centers on K-unstable log Fano pairs.
We develop a general approach to prove K-stability of Fano varieties. The new theory is used to (a) prove the existence of Kahler-Einstein metrics on all smooth Fano hypersurfaces of Fano index two, (b) to compute the stability thresholds for hypersurfaces at generalized Eckardt points and for cubic surfaces at all points, and (c) to provide a new algebraic proof of Tians criterion for K-stability, amongst other applications.