Compact complex surfaces and constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics (Q1014922)

A compact Kähler metric is called extremal if it is a critical point of the Calabi functional defined on the set of all Kähler metrics as the integral of square of the scalar curvature. The main result of the paper under review is that every compact complex surface with even Betti number is deformation equivalent to one which admits an extremal Kähler metric. The main tool used here is the gluing theorem of C. Arezzo and F. Pacard which states that the blow-up/resolution of a compact manifold/orbifold of discrete type, which admits constant scalar curvature Kähler (cscK) metrics, still admits cscK metrics.