Higher Codimensional Alpha Invariants and Characterization of Projective Spaces

Abstract

We generalize the definition of alpha invariant to arbitrary codimension. We also give a lower bound of these alpha invariants for K-semistable Q-Fano varieties and show that we can characterize projective spaces among all K-semistable Fano manifolds in terms of higher codimensional alpha invariants. Our results demonstrate the relation between alpha invariants of any codimension and volumes of Fano manifolds in the characterization of projective spaces.