Existence of Kähler–Einstein metrics and multiplier ideal sheaves on del Pezzo surfaces

Abstract

We apply Nadel’s method of multiplier ideal sheaves to show that every complex del Pezzo surface of degree at most six whose automorphism group acts without fixed points has a Kahler–Einstein metric. In particular, all del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4, 5, or 6 and certain special del Pezzo surfaces of lower degree are shown to have a Kahler–Einstein metric. These existence statements are not new, but the proofs given in the present paper are less involved than earlier ones by Siu, Tian and Tian–Yau.