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Scalar-flat K\"ahler surfaces whose Weyl tensor annihilates the Ricci form

Differential Geometry 2026-05-08 v3

Abstract

We conjecture that any scalar-flat K\"ahler surface in which the Weyl tensor acting on 2-forms annihilates the Ricci form must be either Ricci-flat or locally isometric to a Riemannian product of two real surfaces with mutually opposite nonzero constant Gaussian curvatures. This amounts to the nonexistence of proper weakly Einstein anti-self-dual K\"ahler surfaces. We prove the above conjecture in three special cases: when the manifold is compact, when one of the Ricci eigendistributions is integrable, and when the norms of the Ricci and Weyl tensors are functionally dependent

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@article{arxiv.2604.26696,
  title  = {Scalar-flat K\"ahler surfaces whose Weyl tensor annihilates the Ricci form},
  author = {Andrzej Derdzinski and Sinhwi Kim and JeongHyeong Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26696},
  year   = {2026}
}

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