The Kähler-Einstein metric on the third Del Pezzo surface

Abstract

The compact four-dimensional manifold ${\mathbb{CP}}_2\#3\overline{{\mathbb{CP}}_2}$ is known to admit a toric Kähler-Einstein metric $g_{\text{KE}}$, but the metric is not known in closed form, which makes it difficult to draw conclusions about its geometry. In this article, we use a combination of analytic and computer-assisted techniques to produce an approximate Einstein metric $g$ described explicitly herein, and also prove that the true Einstein metric $g_{\text{KE}}$ is close to $g$, where both the closeness and the topology are described explicitly. As an application, we prove bounds on the first invariant eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and prove that this Kähler-Einstein metric does not have positive holomorphic sectional curvature everywhere.