Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 13 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
The canonical bundle is , the holomorphic line bundle of holomorphic top forms on a complex -manifold. For an embedded complex submanifold of dimension , the holomorphic normal bundle is the quotientTaking determinants and duals gives adjunction for a smooth submanifold:For a closed smooth hypersurface, is its divisor line bundle, equipped with a holomorphic section whose zero divisor is with multiplicity one. If locally defines , local meromorphic generators transform by the holomorphic units . The stated normal-bundle relation isEquivalently the conormal is . The closed-divisor interpretation is needed to define ; an arbitrary nonclosed local submanifold does not define that global divisor bundle.
For a holomorphic subbundle , define on sections of , with acting on the bundle factor of a bundle-valued form. It obeys the Leibniz rule. Since is holomorphic, lies in , so . For , their inner products with the normal components of vanish; hence projecting preserves metric compatibility. The uniqueness proved for the Chern connection identifiesThis is the projected Chern connection.
Choose the adapted smooth unitary frame and retain Question 2's input-index convention. The connection matrix is skew-Hermitian. Its upper-left block is for ; writing the lower-left block as forces the upper-right block to be :Holomorphicity of makes the normal part of vanish, so has type , and has type . The matrix represents the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle in this input-index convention. These types would appear in the opposite blocks with coefficient-column indices; they must not be swapped while retaining the printed minus-sign Cartan equation.
Take the upper-left block of the Cartan curvature equation with input indices. It isTherefore the curvature formula for a holomorphic subbundle isThe sign and the order of the factors both follow from the displayed block multiplication.
Now let be a complex torus and a closed smooth hypersurface. The torus has a translation-invariant flat Kähler metric, and and are holomorphically trivial. Give its flat metric and apply the preceding formula to . Since ,For a tangent vector , the latter coefficient is , so is a semipositive real form. Thus is a semipositive holomorphic line bundle. This proves the semipositive canonical bundle of a submanifold of a complex torus assertion directly from curvature. By adjunction for a smooth submanifold, .
Restrict a positive metric on to . The tensor-product metric onhas curvature , which is positive for every nonnegative integer . HenceThe integer condition is implicit in a tensor power. No assertion of strict positivity of is required.
For vanishing, write . The allowed Kodaira vanishing theorem says that on a compact Kähler manifold , for when is a positive holomorphic line bundle. Since is trivial, its application on the torus gives for .
For every , the divisor section gives the exact sequencewhere . Crucially,and is positive by the proved restriction statement. The induced Kähler metric makes compact Kähler, so Kodaira vanishing theorem on gives for all . In the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology, the segmentthen has zero outside terms by induction. ThereforeThis proves vanishing for divisor twists on a complex torus using restriction positivity and the divisor exact sequence, rather than presuming ambient positivity of every divisor twist.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 22 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The holomorphic normal bundle is the quotient , of rank . The tangent sequence is a short exact sequence of holomorphic vector bundles:Taking determinant line bundles gives . Dualizing and rearranging proves adjunction for a smooth submanifold:The determinant identity follows locally by adjoining lifts of a quotient frame to a subbundle frame; changing the lifts adds only off-diagonal blocks, so does not change the determinant.
For a smooth divisor, choose reduced local defining functions , with and holomorphic and nowhere zero. The holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor has local frames , with . The products define its canonical section vanishing on . Along ,Thus patches to a map , whose kernel is and which is surjective because each reduced defining function has nonzero differential there. Hence . This is the normal bundle of a smooth analytic hypersurface. The divisor construction uses a closed hypersurface: an arbitrary nonclosed embedded hypersurface need not be a divisor. For example, a punctured line in cannot be the support of a divisor, since its missing limit point would also lie in every local holomorphic zero set containing that line.
Let be the section of defining . The intended hypothesis is that it is a regular zero locus: has rank on . In a local trivialization, differentiation of the component functions definesThis is intrinsic: differentiating a change-of-frame matrix introduces terms multiplied by , which vanish on . Its kernel is , so it induces an isomorphism of holomorphic normal bundles. ConsequentlyThis is the normal bundle of a regular zero locus. Here .
Regularity is essential if “vanishing” is read only as equality of underlying sets. On , the section of vanishes set-theoretically on a smooth line . Its derivative vanishes on , andThus smoothness of the underlying zero set alone does not establish the claimed normal-bundle isomorphism. The preceding proof applies when the equations define the reduced smooth submanifold, equivalently are transverse to zero.
For Complex projective space, put . At a line , the tangent space is . Quotienting by its scalar maps into yields the Euler sequenceIts determinant gives . For a smooth complete intersection defined regularly by the homogeneous equations, apply the normal-bundle result to :This is the canonical bundle of a regular projective complete intersection. The same regularity qualification is needed here: the squared-line example would otherwise predict for its canonical bundle, whereas the line has .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 17 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The divisor determines the bundle through its local equations. Choose an open cover on which has a reduced holomorphic defining equation , using on sets disjoint from . Because is a complex submanifold of codimension of a submanifold one, its ideal is locally generated by a coordinate; consequently is a nowhere-zero holomorphic function on each overlap. Inside the sheaf of meromorphic functions on a complex manifold, consider the locally free sheaf of rank oneThese local descriptions agree on overlaps. With , its transition functions of a vector bundle are specified byThe ratios satisfy the Čech cocycle condition, and the associated holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor is . The section is holomorphic and vanishes to order one along . Replacing by , with a holomorphic unit, replaces the frame by without changing the subsheaf of meromorphic functions. Refining the cover changes no local sections either. This proves choice independence up to isomorphism rather than merely producing a bundle for one cover.
For a complex manifold of dimension , the canonical bundle isIt is the holomorphic line bundle of holomorphic top-degree differential forms. To compute it on Complex projective space, let be the complex tautological line bundle, so that is the hyperplane line bundle. At a line , the tangent space is . Tensoring the tautological quotient sequence by gives the Euler sequence on complex projective spaceTaking the top exterior power gives ; taking its dual bundle yieldsHere a negative tensor power means the corresponding positive tensor power of the dual bundle.
The proposed sections over form a sheaf: compatible maps into glue uniquely, and their projections remain . Addition and multiplication by holomorphic functions are defined in the fibres of , making this a sheaf of -modules. If is a holomorphic local frame of on , every section over has the unique expressionThus the sheaf is a locally free sheaf of rank one. Its transition functions of a vector bundle are those of composed with , so the corresponding pullback vector bundle is precisely . This proves invertibility locally and compatibility globally.
For the local blowup of a complex manifold at a point, work on the projective chart and writeAll the incidence equations reduce to . Therefore gives a holomorphic coordinate chart isomorphic to . On an overlap with ,which is a biholomorphism where . The incidence subset is closed in the product of two Hausdorff spaces and is covered by these charts; hence it is a complex manifold of dimension . In each chart the exceptional fibre is , so it is a smooth complex submanifold, with its induced projective coordinates givingAway from the origin the inverse of the projection is , which is holomorphic; the projection is therefore a biholomorphism outside .
To find the canonical bundle, pull back the nowhere-zero top form on . In the chart above, its Jacobian determinant givesThe sign depends only on the ordering of the coordinates. This is a section of with divisor on a complex manifold exactly : it has that vanishing order in every exceptional chart and no zeros elsewhere. A nonzero meromorphic section of a holomorphic line bundle with divisor identifies its holomorphic line bundle with , by sending the local generator of to the nowhere-zero frame obtained by dividing the section by . ConsequentlyThis also includes , when the local map is an isomorphism and the exponent is zero.
For a general complex manifold, choose a coordinate neighbourhood of , with sent to , and replace by the inverse image of this coordinate neighbourhood in the local blowup of a complex manifold at a point. Glue this space to along using the preceding biholomorphism. The resulting charts give a complex manifold and a holomorphic map ; the exceptional fibre is and the map is a biholomorphism off that fibre. For completeness, the local projection is proper because its inverse image over a compact subset is closed in that subset times compact Complex projective space. This ensures the gluing is Hausdorff: separate points with distinct images downstairs, and points over inside the local blowup. The atlas is second countable as well.
The top exterior power of the differential defines a global holomorphic bundle map . Equivalently, it is a section of . The same local Jacobian determinant has vanishing order on , and the differential is invertible elsewhere. Applying the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor construction gives the canonical bundle formula for a point blowup
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 23 3 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The effective group is torsion free and every modular cusp is regular in the preceding sense, so orders of a meromorphic weight- form are integers. At interior points use a local automorphy trivialization; at a modular cusp use the Fourier order of the appropriate slash transform in its cusp width coordinate. Let be the sum of all modular cusp points, each once, and setA meromorphic function belongs to the Riemann-Roch space exactly when . In the interior this requires to have no pole; at a modular cusp it requires order at least one. Conversely, the quotient of any weight- cusp form by is a meromorphic weight-zero function satisfying precisely those inequalities. This proves the cusp-form divisor presentationTo compute the degree without imposing a valence formula as an extra assumption, use the meromorphic tensor differential . Its automorphy factors cancel. Its order at an interior point is ; at a modular cusp it is , since is a nonzero constant times . A meromorphic section of the th tensor power of the canonical bundle has total divisor degree . The regular-cusp valence formula on a torsion-free modular curve is thereforeFor , . The Riemann-Roch theorem says , and a divisor of negative degree has no nonzero sections. Thus andUsing and givesThe canonical-degree and Riemann-Roch facts used here are general results for compact Riemann surfaces, as permitted.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 118 5 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
This is the Poincaré residue of a meromorphic top form with a simple pole. Write and locally , with a holomorphic -form. The proposed residue is the pullback of to .
First it does not depend on the choice of : if , then at each point the difference has a factor , and its pullback to is zero. Now change the local defining coordinate to , where is a nowhere-zero holomorphic function. Such a factor exists because both coordinates define the same smooth complex analytic hypersurface. If , thenAt points of , this is an equality in the ambient exterior-power fibre, and the last term is zero. It follows that there, so their pullbacks to agree. This also covers changes of the tangential coordinates.
The restrictions are holomorphic top forms on , and their agreement on overlaps makes them a global section of the canonical bundle. Thus the residue is independent of the adapted coordinates:The ambient-fibre comparison is important: pulling an ambient -form directly back to the -dimensional hypersurface would give zero and would not prove the required independence.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 118 5 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
On , let and let be the Euler vector field. The numerator is its interior product of a differential form, soBoth numerator and denominator have homogeneous scaling degree . Thus this meromorphic -form is invariant under constant nonzero scalings, and makes it horizontal for the quotient to Complex projective space.
To check descent using the hint, take a local holomorphic section of the quotient and another section , where is a nowhere-zero holomorphic function. In the evaluationevery term involving has two collinear arguments and vanishes. The remaining term is , while . Hence . The forms therefore glue to a meromorphic section of the canonical bundle of Complex projective space.
On the affine chart , use the section and list the remaining coordinates as in increasing original-index order. If is the resulting polynomial, thenAt a point of , some derivative is nonzero. Otherwise all the homogeneous derivatives except possibly would vanish; the Euler homogeneous function theorem gives there, forcing too. This contradicts the permitted smoothness criterion. The holomorphic inverse function theorem now makes a transverse coordinate, so the pole is simple. On a neighbourhood with , rearranging the wedge product of differential forms givesBy part (a), its Poincaré residue is consequentlyThe remaining coordinates form a holomorphic coordinate system on , and is nonzero in this neighbourhood. The displayed top form is therefore nowhere zero. These neighbourhoods cover and part (a) guarantees agreement on their overlaps. The residue is a nowhere-vanishing global holomorphic section:This is the explicit residue trivialization for a degree n+1 projective hypersurface, consistent with the adjunction formula , but obtained here directly from the indicated form.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 132 2 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Label the polygon vertices cyclically. Translation pairing of opposite sides identifieswith indices modulo . The vertex classes are consequently the cosets of the subgroup generated by in , and their number isThe quotient is a compact Hausdorff space. An interior point has a disk neighbourhood, a paired-side point has two half-disks joined to a disk, and each vertex class has its incident sectors cyclically joined to a cone, topologically a disk. Thus it is a connected closed surface with an orientation. Its Euler characteristic is , since there are paired edges and one face. Hence
The polygon interior and paired-side charts are translation surface charts with . Each corner angle is . For even , all corners meet, giving cone angle ; for odd , each of the two classes contains corners, giving cone angle . Both are integral multiples of . A cone of angle has the local uniformizing coordinate with ; the holomorphic one-form is . Filling the vertices therefore supplies the Riemann surface structure and the holomorphic one-form, withAn order-zero entry denotes a regular point, not an actual zero: for the surface is a torus and the form is nowhere zero. The zero orders otherwise sum to , as a check against the degree of the canonical bundle.
For , the form has one double zero and lies in the stratum of holomorphic one-forms ; for , it has two simple zeros and lies in . The SL2R action on differentials preserves zero multiplicities, as the local cone argument shows. ThereforeTheir equal genus and area do not distinguish the orbits; their different strata of holomorphic one-forms do.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 118 3 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Apply Serre duality for compact complex manifolds to , where is the canonical bundle:We can show the group on the right vanishes directly from the embedding. Since , the tautological bundle inclusion gives an inclusion of holomorphic vector bundlesA global holomorphic section of consequently determines global holomorphic functions on . Compactness and the maximum modulus principle make these functions constant on every connected component. On such a component the section is therefore a constant vector lying in the tautological line for every .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 118 3 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
For the Calabi-Yau threefold in the stated convention, the Hodge decomposition theorem for compact Kähler manifolds givesIn particular, the Dolbeault theorem yields . By Serre duality for compact complex manifolds in dimension three,The canonical bundle is trivial, so the group on the right equals . Thus , and part (c) gives
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 118 1 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
The tangent-normal short exact sequencegives . Dualizing and using the canonical bundle,Since , rearrangement proves the adjunction formula
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 118 2 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The restriction of to the -invariant bundle is an almost complex structure. Its Nijenhuis tensor is the restriction of the ambient Nijenhuis tensor because vector fields tangent to an embedded submanifold have tangent Lie bracket. The ambient tensor vanishes since is a complex manifold, so the Newlander-Nirenberg theorem makes the induced structure on integrable. The inclusion has complex-linear differential and is therefore holomorphic; hence is a complex submanifold.
For a complex submanifold, the holomorphic normal bundle isIf is a smooth hypersurface, taking top exterior powers in the holomorphic conormal sequencegivesThe normal bundle of a hypersurface is , so the adjunction formula is
On , a bihomogeneous polynomial of bidegree is a section of the holomorphic line bundle . Its zero locus is smooth precisely when the section is transverse to the zero section, equivalently when and all of its homogeneous first partial derivatives have no common projective zero. Sincethe adjunction formula yieldsThus a smooth with and defines a complex submanifold with trivial canonical bundle.
Poincaré residue along a smooth hypersurface 2026-10-06
If a meromorphic top form has at most a simple pole along a smooth complex analytic hypersurface , write with holomorphic. Its residue is , a holomorphic section of the canonical bundle . A change of defining coordinate , with holomorphic and nonzero, changes by the holomorphic form and leaves this restriction invariant. Placing the normal factor first fixes the sign convention.
Quadratic differential 2026-10-05
A section of the square of the canonical bundle, locally ; its coefficient changes by the square of the coordinate derivative. A holomorphic quadratic differential has holomorphic coefficient, and its flat metric of a quadratic differential is .
Rational differential on an algebraic curve 2026-10-03
A rational differential on a smooth projective curve is a rational section of its canonical bundle. In a local coordinate it has the form for a rational function .
For a degree- smooth surface and a smooth rational curve of degree , the canonical bundle is . The adjunction formula gives , hence . In particular a line has self-intersection .
