New examples of extremal Kähler metrics are given on blow-ups of parabolic ruled surfaces. The method used is based on the gluing construction of Arezzo, Pacard and Singer [5]. This enables to endow ruled surfaces of the form $\P (𝒪\oplus L)$ with special parabolic structures such that the associated iterated blow-up admits an extremal metric of non-constant scalar curvature.

We provide a new proof of a result of X.X. Chen and G.Tian [5]: for a polarized extremal Kähler manifold, the minimum of the modified K-energy is attained at an extremal metric. The proof uses an idea of C. Li [16] adapted to the extremal metrics using some weighted balanced metrics.

We first prove a strengthening of Miyaoka’s generic semi-positivity theorem: the quotients of the tensor powers of the cotangent bundle of a non-uniruled complex projective manifold $X$ have a pseudo-effective (instead of generically nef) determinant. A first consequence is that $X$ is of general type if its cotangent bundle contains a subsheaf with ‘big’ determinant. Among other applications, we deduce that if the universal cover of $X$ is not covered by compact positive-dimensional analytic subsets,...

Let M be a hyperkähler manifold, and F a reflexive sheaf on M. Assume that F (away from its singularities) admits a connection ▿ with a curvature Θ which is invariant under the standard SU(2)-action on 2-forms. If Θ is square-integrable, such sheaf is called hyperholomorphic. Hyperholomorphic sheaves were studied at great length in [21]. Such sheaves are stable and their singular sets are hyperkähler subvarieties in M. In the present paper, we study sheaves admitting a connection with SU(2)-invariant...

This paper divides into two parts. Let (X,ω) be a compact Hermitian manifold. Firstly, if the Hermitian metric ω satisfies the assumption that $\partial \partial ̅{\omega }^k=0$ for all k, we generalize the volume of the cohomology class in the Kähler setting to the Hermitian setting, and prove that the volume is always finite and the Grauert-Riemenschneider type criterion holds true, which is a partial answer to a conjecture posed by Boucksom. Secondly, we observe that if the anticanonical bundle $K_X^{-1}$ is nef, then for any ε >...