Holomorphic conormal bundle 2026-10-14
For a complex submanifold , the holomorphic conormal bundle is the annihilator of inside , or equivalently the dual of the holomorphic normal bundle. For a smooth analytic hypersurface with local equation , it is generated by . It is also the locally free analytic sheaf .
Normal bundle of a smooth analytic hypersurface Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For a smooth complex analytic hypersurface , its holomorphic normal bundle is naturally the restriction of its holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor:If reduced local defining functions satisfy , then . Pairing a normal vector with and using the reciprocal transition functions of gives the isomorphism.
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 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.