A closed symplectic four-manifold has almost Kähler metrics of negative scalar curvature (Q2481345)

The author studies a compact symplectic four manifolds. He proves that any closed symplectic four manifold \((M,\omega)\) admits a compatible Riemannian metric \(g\) -- almost Kähler metric -- such that \((M,g)\) has negative scalar curvature. The method of proof is a significant modification of the method of Lohkamp, used in the case of finding Riemannian metrics of negative Ricci curvature. The author first constructs the so called island metric on \(\mathbb R^4\) of negative scalar curvature on a pre-compact open set and Euclidean outside its closure, which is almost Kähler. Then he does a surgery of embedding copies of island metrics into a given almost Kähler manifold compatible with \(\omega\) and uses almost Kähler deformation to decrease the scalar curvature outside copies of island metrics. The resulting manifold \((M,g)\) is almost Kähler with \(\omega(X,Y)=g(JX,Y)\) and has negative scalar curvature.