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IJMMS 2003:7, 405–450 PII. S016117120310806X © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CONSTANT SCALAR CURVATURE METRICS ON CONNECTED SUMS DOMINIC JOYCE Received 13 August 2001 and in revised form 12 March 2002 The Yamabe problem (proved in 1984) guarantees the existence of a metric of con- stant scalar curvature in each conformal class of Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold of dimension n ≥ 3, which minimizes the total scalar curvature on this conformal class. Let (M ,g ) and (M ,g ) be compact Riemannian n-manifolds. We form their connected sum M #M by removing small balls of radius from M n−1 , M and gluing together the boundaries, and make a metric g on M #M by joining together g , g with a partition of unity. In this paper, we use analysis to study metrics with constant scalar curvature on M #M in the conformal class of g . By the Yamabe problem, we may rescale g and g to have constant scalar curvature 1, 0, or −1. Thus, there are nine cases, which we handle separately. We show that the constant scalar curvature metrics either develop small “necks” sep- arating M and M , or one of M , M is crushed small by the conformal factor. When both sides have positive scalar curvature, we find three metrics with scalar curvature 1 in the same conformal class. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 58E11, 53C20. 1. Introduction. Let (M ,g ) and (M ,g ) be compact manifolds of dimen- sion n ≥ 3. The connected sum M = M #M is the result of removing a sma