106 Anna Fino and Adriano Tomassinithat a compact complex manifold has a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric if and <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>ly if there isno n<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>-zero positive current of bi-dimensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> (1,1) which is dd c -exact.Miyaoka proved in [41] that, if a compact complex manifold has a Kählermetric in the complement of a point, then it admits itself a Kähler metric.By using a deep extensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> and regularity result for positive or negative plurisubharm<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>iccurrents by Alessandrini and Bassanelli (see [2]) we get the followingTheorem 3.1. [19] If M 2n \ {p}, n ≥ 2, admits a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric, then thereexists a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> M 2n .This theorem is a generalizati<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> of Miyaoka’s extensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> result (see [41]).A classical result by Blanchard (see [9]) states that the blow-up of a Kählermanifold at a point or al<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g a compact complex submanifold is still Kähler. Forthe str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> case we have the same result (see [19]), namelyTheorem 3.2. The blow-up of a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> manifold (M,J,g) at a point or al<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>ga compact complex submanifold of M is still str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong>.Then, as an applicati<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> of the previous theorem we have that, if M is acomplex manifold and ˜M p is the blow-up of M at a point p ∈ M, then ˜M p has astr<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric if and <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>ly if M admits a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric.Theorem 3.1 can be applied to complex orbifolds endowed with a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong>metric in a similar way as for the symplectic orbifolds (see [11]).We start with recalling that a complex orbifold is a singular complex manifold Mof dimensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> n such that each singularity p is locally isomorphic to U/G, whereU is an open set of C n , G is a finite subgroup of GL(n, C) acting linearly <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> Uwith the <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>ly <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>e fixed point p. Moreover, the set S of singular points of M ofthe orbifold M has real codimensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> at least two.Therefore, for instance, the quotient of a complex manifold by a holomorphicacti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> of a finite group G with n<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>-identity fixed point sets of real codimensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>at least two <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>e is a complex orbifold.The noti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>s of smooth r-forms and (p,q)-forms make also sense <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> complexorbifolds and the differential d splits as usual as d = ∂ + ∂. A Hermitian metricg <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> a complex orbifold (M,J) is a J-Hermitian metric in the usual sense <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>the n<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>-singular part of (M,J) and G-invariant in any chart U/G. In this case,for any chart U/G, we have G ⊂ U(n). The Hermitian metric <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> the complexorbifold (M,J) is str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> if ∂∂F = 0, where F is the fundamental 2-formassociated to (J,g).We recall that in general a resoluti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> ( ˜M,π) of a singular complex variety Mis a normal, n<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>singular complex variety ˜M with a proper surjective birati<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>almorphism π : ˜M → M. In [19] we studied the resoluti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> of singularities of acomplex orbifold endowed with a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric in order to obtain a smoothcomplex manifold admitting a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric. We set the followingDefiniti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> 3.3. Let (M,J,g) be a complex orbifold endowed with a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong>metric g . A str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> resoluti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> of a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> orbifold (M,J,g) is the datum
A <str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g>survey</str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g> <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> <strong>structures</strong> 107of a smooth complex manifold ( ˜M, ˜J) endowed with a ˜J-Hermitian str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong>metric ˜g and of a map π : ˜M → M, such thati) π : ˜M \ E → M \ S is a biholomorphism, where S is the singular set of Mand E = π −1 (S) is the excepti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>al set;ii) ˜g = π ∗ g <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> the complement of a neighborhood of E.By applying Hir<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>aka Resoluti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> of Singularities Theorem [32] to resolve thesingularities of a complex algebraic variety by a finite number of blow-ups, in [19]we proved the followingTheorem 3.4. Let (M,J) be a complex orbifold of complex dimensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> n endowedwith a J-Hermitian str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> metric g. Then there exists a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> resoluti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>.4 Simply-c<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>nected examplesIn [19] we applied the previous theorem to a quotient of a torus by the finite groupZ 2 . More precisely let T 6 = R 6 /Z 6 be the standard torus and let (x 1 ,...,x 6 ) beglobal coordinates <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> R 2n .C<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>sider <<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> T 6 the involuti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> σ induced byσ ( (x 1 ,...,x 6 ) ) = (−x 1 ,...,−x 6 ).and the complex structure J defined by{η 1 = dx 1 + i ( f dx 3 + dx 4) ,η j = dx j + idx 3+j , j = 2,3,where f = f(x 3 ,x 6 ) is a C ∞ , Z 6 -periodic and even functi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>.Then, as a c<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>sequence of Theorem 3.4, we can prove the followingTheorem 4.1. [19] The quotient (T 6 /〈σ〉,J) is a complex orbifold with singularpoint setS ={x + Z 6 | x ∈ 1 }2 Z6 .The J-Hermitian metric g = 1 2∑ nj=1(η j ⊗ η j + η j ⊗ η j) is str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong>. Moreover,(T 6 /〈σ〉,J) admits a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> resoluti<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>> which is simply-c<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>nected.Very interesting examples of 6-dimensi<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>al simply-c<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>nected str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g <strong>KT</strong> manifoldswere found in [21] by using torus bundles. They proved that for everypositive integer k ≥ 1, the manifold (k −1)(S 2 ×S 4 )♯k(S 3 ×S 3 ) admits a str<<strong>strong</strong>>on</<strong>strong</strong>>g