Almost-Kähler smoothings of compact complex surfaces with $A_1$ singularities

This paper is concerned with the existence of metrics of constant Hermitian scalar curvature on almost-Kahler manifolds obtained as smoothings of a constant scalar curvature Kahler orbifold, with A1 singularities. More precisely, given such an orbifold that does not admit nontrivial holomorphic vector fields, we show that an almost-Kahler smoothing (Me, ωe) admits an almost-Kahler structure (Je, ge) of constant Hermitian curvature. Moreover, we show that for e > 0 small enough, the (Me, ωe) are all symplectically equivalent to a fixed symplectic manifold (M , ω) in which there is a surface S homologous to a 2-sphere, such that [S] is a vanishing cycle that admits a representant that is Hamiltonian stationary for ge.