Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 118 1 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Hermitian metric on a holomorphic vector bundle is a smoothly varying family of positive-definite Hermitian forms on its fibers. A Chern connection is a connection on a vector bundle that is compatible with and whose part is the bundle's Dolbeault partial connection, .
Choose a local holomorphic frame and write . The connection form in this frame isIf for a nowhere-zero holomorphic function , then andwhich is exactly the connection-form transformation law. The local formulas therefore define a global connection.
Identify with the tautological bundle over Complex projective space. The standard Hermitian inner product of restricts to each tautological line. On the affine chart , put for and use the holomorphic frameThenThe curvature form of a connection isConsequently Chern-Weil theory gives the closed representativewhere is the Fubini-Study form.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 118 3 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a scalar form and a section of , define the Dolbeault partial connection on decomposable forms byand extend linearly. This is independent of the chosen local expression precisely because the original operator obeys its Leibniz rule.
Applying the rule twice makes the two mixed terms cancel. Since is complex, , and for every smooth function and -valued form one obtainsThus is linear over .