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

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.