Constant scalar curvature Kähler metric

In differential geometry, a constant scalar curvature Kähler metric (cscK metric), is (as the name suggests) a Kähler metric on a complex manifold whose scalar curvature is constant. A special case is Kähler–Einstein metric, and a more general case is extremal Kähler metric.

Donaldson (2002), Tian and Yau conjectured that the existence of a cscK metric on a polarised projective manifold is equivalent to the polarised manifold being K-polystable. Recent developments in the field suggest that the correct equivalence may be to the polarised manifold being uniformly K-polystable . When the polarisation is given by the (anti)-canonical line bundle (i.e. in the case of Fano or Calabi–Yau manifolds) the notions of K-stability and K-polystability coincide, cscK metrics are precisely Kähler-Einstein metrics and the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture is known to hold .