The dual of the holomorphic tangent bundle is a holomorphic vector bundle with local frames . Coordinate changes have holomorphic invertible Jacobian matrices, so these frames have holomorphic transition functions. Its holomorphic sections are exactly the holomorphic one-forms.
A real connection on a vector bundle on with restricts after complexification to a connection on the holomorphic tangent bundle. Conversely and its conjugate determine a unique such real connection. In holomorphic coordinates, compatibility with the holomorphic structure means . Zero mixed torsion tensor says that this derivative equals ; the two belong to opposite eigentypes, so both vanish. Reality proves the reverse implication. Preserving alone does not imply this condition.
At a point , the complex tautological line bundle has fiber . The hyperplane line bundle is its dual, , and . On let be the tautological frame and its dual. On overlaps . The sheaf of holomorphic sections of a vector bundle of this dual bundle is the sheaf .
If a nonzero linear form cuts out the projective hyperplane , it gives a holomorphic section of with a simple zero along . Dividing a local section by gives a meromorphic function with no poles away from and at most a simple pole on . Conversely multiplication by turns such a function into a holomorphic section. These mutually inverse local constructions agree on overlaps and prove the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor identification
The nonnegative hyperplane twist cohomology by restriction calculation gives
To derive it from the permitted vanishing, use the hyperplane exact sequence for twisting sheaves
where and . Local multiplication by a defining equation is injective, and restriction gives exactly its cokernel. Induct on , starting from a point, and then on . For , higher sheaf cohomology vanishes by assumption and global holomorphic functions are constant by compactness and the maximum principle. For , the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology, the inductive vanishing for and the dimension induction on give vanishing in every positive degree and
Summing this recurrence gives . Homogeneous degree- monomials give that many independent sections, so they form a basis. The printed extra equality to zero cannot hold in degree zero, already because ; the boxed calculation gives the intended dimensions.
For the differential of the projective quotient map, the differential of a smooth map is computed by applying a tangent vector to coordinate functions. Since ,
Thus
Under replacing by , on a constant ambient tangent vector scales by , while a homogeneous linear form scales by . Therefore is independent of the representative. Its chart coefficients are holomorphic, so it is a global holomorphic vector field. The radial Euler vector field lies in the kernel of , either from the same formulas or because it differentiates a scaling orbit. Hence
Describe the Euler sequence on complex projective space fiberwise as well as in coordinates. At a line , the middle bundle has fiber and the holomorphic tangent bundle has fiber . Send a homomorphism to its composition with the quotient. The map from sends a scalar to that scalar times the inclusion . In homogeneous notation these maps are
A local section of is a local degree-one homogeneous function on the punctured cone, so the second expression is representative-independent. Quotienting is surjective, and its kernel consists exactly of scalar inclusion maps. This proves the short exact sequence of locally free sheaves
Since it is locally split, dualizing and tensoring by preserves exactness and gives the cotangent Euler sequence in homogeneous coordinates
On global sections the last map identifies with the basis of linear forms in . Its kernel is zero. This proves the vanishing of global sections of the once-twisted projective cotangent bundle; left exactness gives .
Extend complex-linearly to the complexification of a real vector bundle . Since , its and eigenbundles have smooth projections
Each has complex rank : complex conjugation interchanges them, and together they have rank . These are the type decomposition of the complexified tangent bundle. For an arbitrary almost complex structure, they are smooth complex vector bundles; a holomorphic vector bundle structure requires integrability.
When comes from a holomorphic atlas, write a holomorphic coordinate as . Its Wirtinger derivatives are
The induced almost complex structure has and . Hence the displayed vector fields are respectively and eigenvectors. They are linearly independent, and each collection has elements. Thus they give local frames for and respectively, with the holomorphic tangent bundle. The repeated in the first sentence of the printed item must be read as the two complementary eigenbundles.
For a Hermitian metric on a complex manifold, the Chern connection on its holomorphic tangent bundle corresponds to a real metric-compatible connection preserving the almost complex structure. Its mixed torsion vanishes, and in holomorphic coordinates its remaining coefficients are . Symmetry in is equivalent to ; its conjugate gives . Thus zero torsion is exactly the Kähler metric condition, and then uniqueness identifies this connection with the Levi-Civita connection.
Type decomposition of the complexified tangent bundle Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
An almost complex structure gives the and eigenbundles of its complex-linear extension. Their projections are and . For an integrable structure the first is the holomorphic tangent bundle.