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Space of Kähler metrics III – On the lower bound of the Calabi energy and geodesic distance

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Chen, X. Space of Kähler metrics III – On the lower bound of the Calabi energy and geodesic distance. Invent. math. 175, 453–503 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-008-0153-7

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