Existence and deformation theory for scalar-flat Kähler metrics on compact complex surfaces (Q690221): Difference between revisions

The main purpose of this article is to study one of the possible generalizations of the classical uniformization theorem. The authors give the sufficient conditions that a compact complex 2-manifold admits zero- scalar-curvature Kähler metrics. Main Theorem. Let \(M\) be a compact complex surface which admits a Kähler metric whose scalar curvature has integral zero. Suppose \(\pi_ 1(M)\) does not contain an Abelian subgroup of finite index. Then, if \(M\) is blown up at sufficiently many points, the resulting surface \(\widetilde{M}\) admits scalar-flat Kähler metrics. To prove this theorem the author use the twistor correspondence of a modified version of Kodaira-Spencer theory. They compute the Futaki character for all relevant complex surfaces, and use this to show that the deformation theory is unobstructed for all non-minimal surfaces. They improve a known class of exact solutions and they classify scalar-flat Kähler surfaces with non-trivial automorphism algebra. The authors show that every satisfying the hypotheses of the Main Theorem has blow-ups which are arbitrarily small deformations of surfaces on which they have exact solutions.