On the existence and nonexistence of extremal metrics on toric Kähler surfaces (Q631818)

The existence of canonical metrics on Kähler manifolds is a central issue in complex geometry. In this interesting paper, the existence of extremal metrics on toric Kähler surfaces is studied. The authors prove the important result that on every toric Kähler surface there exists a Kähler class in which the surface admits an extremal metric of Calabi. They also find a toric Kähler surface with 9 \(T^2_{\mathbb{C}}\)-fixed points which admits an unstable Kähler class and there is no extremal metric of Calabi in it. Donaldson has already given an example of a toric surface with unstable Kähler class but the number of \(T^2_{\mathbb{C}}\)-fixed points on the surface must be very large. The authors, moreover, prove a characterization of the K-stability for toric surfaces by simple piecewise linear functions. And, as an application, they show that among all toric Kähler surfaces with 5 or 6 \(T^2_{\mathbb{C}}\)-fixed points, \({\mathbb{C}}{\mathbb{P}^2}\# 3 \overline{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2\) is the only one which allows vanishing Futaki invariant and admits extremal metrics of constant scalar curvature.