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By Andrei Moroianu

Kähler geometry is a gorgeous and interesting zone of arithmetic, of considerable learn curiosity to either mathematicians and physicists. This self-contained 2007 graduate textual content offers a concise and available advent to the subject. The publication starts off with a evaluate of uncomplicated differential geometry, sooner than relocating directly to an outline of complicated manifolds and holomorphic vector bundles. Kähler manifolds are mentioned from the perspective of Riemannian geometry, and Hodge and Dolbeault theories are defined, including an easy evidence of the well-known Kähler identities. the ultimate a part of the textual content reviews numerous facets of compact Kähler manifolds: the Calabi conjecture, Weitzenböck concepts, Calabi-Yau manifolds, and divisors. All sections of the publication finish with a sequence of workouts and scholars and researchers operating within the fields of algebraic and differential geometry and theoretical physics will locate that the publication offers them with a legitimate realizing of this concept.

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5. The operator R∇ (X, Y )Z := ∇X ∇Y Z − ∇Y ∇X Z − ∇[X,Y ] Z, ∀ X, Y, Z ∈ X (M ) defines a tensor of type (3, 1) called the curvature tensor of ∇. Proof. 1. If (M n , g, ∇) is a Riemannian manifold, it is sometimes convenient to view the curvature tensor as a (4, 0)-tensor by: R(X, Y, Z, T ) := g(R∇ (X, Y )Z, T ), ∀ X, Y, Z, T ∈ T M, called the Riemannian curvature tensor. A Riemannian metric is called flat if its Riemannian curvature tensor vanishes. Using the integrability theorem of Frobenius, one can show that this is equivalent to the fact that M is locally isometric to a Euclidean space.

Vk ) ∈ Glx (E) in the following way. Take local sections σi of E around x such that σi (x) = vi and (∇X σi )x = 0. Then σ := (σ1 , . . , σk ) is a local section of Gl(E) satisfying σ(x) = u. We define ˜ u := σ∗ (X) ∈ Tu Gl(E). It can be easily shown, using a local trivialization (X) ˜ does not depend on the local sections σi . 2, that X denotes the canonical projection π : Gl(E) → M , we have by construction ˜ u ) = X for all u ∈ Glx (E). The set of all horizontal lifts at u is an nπ∗ (X dimensional subspace of Tu Gl(E), called the horizontal subspace and denoted by Tuh Gl(E), or simply Hu when no confusion is possible.

Of course, Hol(u) = Hol0 (u) if M is simply connected. 13. (i) The holonomy group Hol(u) is a subgroup of G. (ii) Hol(ua) = a−1 Hol(u)a for every u ∈ P and a ∈ G. (iii) If u and v can be joined by a horizontal path, then Hol(u) = Hol(v). Proof. (i) Clearly e ∈ Hol(u). If a, b ∈ Hol(u), let γ and γ be two horizontal paths in P joining u with ua and ub respectively. By right invariance, the composition γ · (γb) is a piecewise smooth horizontal path joining u with uab. Similarly, γ −1 a−1 joins u with ua−1 , where γ −1 (t) denotes the path γ(1 − t).

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