On the proportionality of Chern and Riemannian scalar curvatures (Q1663767)

This paper deals with a relationship between the scalar curvatures \(S_C(g)\) and \(S(g)\) resulting from the Chern connection on the holomorphic tangent bundle, and the Levi-Civita connection on the underlying Riemannian manifold. The authors ask whether there can exist Hermitian metrics on compact complex manifolds which posses the property that \(S(g)=2 kS_C(g)\) for some constant \(k\). Metrics satisfying this are called scaled-Kähler like scalar curvature (sKlsc) metrics for \(k\neq 0\). Such metrics would necessarily be non-Kähler for \(k\neq 1\). The authors establish non-trivial existence results for Hermitian conformal structures with non-zero Gauduchon degree on a compact complex manifold of complex dimension \(n\geq 2\). While sKlsc metrics are guaranteed to exist in almost every conformal class of non-zero Gauduchon degree, the sKlsc condition in a conformal class of zero Gauduchon degree is equivalent to the Kähler condition.