Discoveries / geometry-topology

The Yau–Tian–Donaldson Conjecture for Constant Scalar Curvature Kähler Metrics

The paper's appendix draws a distinction worth keeping: a counterexample may reduce to a finite certificate, checkable once the object is written down, or it may itself be a theorem quantified over all degenerations. This is the second kind. The method field records construction, because the resolution exhibits an explicit fivefold, but the difficulty lay elsewhere - candidate manifolds of this shape have been available since 2008, and what was missing was the proof that the mechanism works.