Concavity of Perelman's $\mathcal{W}$-functional over the space of K\"ahler potentials

Abstract

In this short note we observe that the concavity of Perelman's $\mathcal{W}$-functional over a neighborhood of a K\"ahler-Ricci soliton inside the space of K\"ahler potentials is a direct consequence of author's solution of the variational stability problem for K\"ahler-Ricci solitons. Independently, we provide a rather simple proof of this fact based on some elementary formulas obtained in our previous work.