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Chern classes of a smooth hypersurface cotangent bundle (c(ΩX1​)=(1−h)n+1/(1−dh))

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For a smooth degree-d projective hypersurface X⊂Pn, put h=c1​(OX​(1)). The cotangent Euler sequence in homogeneous coordinates gives c(ΩPn1​∣X​)=(1−h)n+1. The Conormal exact sequence for Kähler differentials and Whitney sum formula for Chern classes therefore yield c(ΩX1​)=(1−h)n+1/(1−dh). In codimension i≤n−1, its coefficient is ci​(ΩX1​)=∑j=0i​(−1)j(jn+1​)di−jhi. Higher classes vanish by rank and dimension; the formal quotient is truncated in the Chow ring.

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