Greatest Ricci lower bounds of projective horospherical manifolds of Picard number one

Abstract

A horospherical variety is a normal G-variety such that a connected reductive algebraic group G acts with an open orbit isomorphic to a torus bundle over a rational homogeneous manifold. The projective horospherical manifolds of Picard number one are classified by Pasquier, and it turned out that the automorphism groups of all nonhomogeneous ones are non-reductive, which implies that they admit no Kähler–Einstein metrics. As a numerical measure of the extent to which a Fano manifold is close to be Kähler–Einstein, we compute the greatest Ricci lower bounds of projective horospherical manifolds of Picard number one using the barycenter of each moment polytope with respect to the Duistermaat–Heckman measure based on a recent work of Delcroix and Hultgren. In particular, the greatest Ricci lower bound of the odd symplectic Grassmannian \(\text {SGr}(n,2n+1)\) can be arbitrarily close to zero as n grows.