On the effective YTD conjecture

Abstract

We formulate an effective variant of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture, then review effective results on K-stability of spherical varieties, that is, K-stability criterions which can be effectively computed given the combinatorial data associated with the variety. We focus on the standard notion of K-stability as defined by Donaldson for constant scalar curvature K\"ahler metrics.