Abstract:The existence and search of special metrics plays a remarkably important role in Differential Geometry. After a brief overview of basic definitions and facts in hypercomplex Geometry, we will discuss certain notions of special metrics in the hypercomplex setting, focusing on the consequences of their existence. We will also introduce an Einstein condition for hyperhermitian metrics an...
Abstract:Alongside with conic bundles, del Pezzo surfaces are possible outcomes of the Minimal Model Program ran on a geometrically rational surface. Thus, many questions about birational geometry and birational automorphisms of geometrically rational surfaces reduce to similar questions for del Pezzo surfaces. I will survey some known results concerning birational models and birational automo...