Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 18 4 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
A positive holomorphic line bundle admits a Hermitian metric whose Chern connection curvature satisfies that is a positive real (1, 1)-form. In a local holomorphic local frame with squared length , the local formula for the Chern connection on a line bundle gives , so positivity means is positive definite. Its closedness makes a Kähler form; use this form to define the operators below.
Let , choose a Hermitian metric on , and equip with the tensor-product metric. The curvature of a tensor product connection givesOn -valued zero-forms, the Lefschetz commutator is . Thus the Bochner-Kodaira-Nakano identity givesThis last operator is a fixed smooth self-adjoint bundle endomorphism. Compactness supplies a finite such that at every point. For a holomorphic section of , and by degree, so integrating the identity givesChoose an integer with . Then . The threshold depends on the fixed bundle , as the curvature bound makes explicit. Positive complex dimension is necessary: on a zero-dimensional manifold positivity is vacuous and a nonzero fibre has nonzero sections for every twist.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 18 5 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The Kähler form and the Hermitian metric give the inner product on vector-bundle-valued differential forms, using volume . Define the formal adjoint and the elliptic, self-adjoint, nonnegative Dolbeault LaplacianIts harmonic space isThe equality follows from . On compact , the bundle-valued Dolbeault Hodge decomposition states that this space is finite dimensional and thatThe sum is orthogonal for the inner product and all summands here consist of smooth forms. Every Dolbeault cohomology class has a unique harmonic representative, giving and, by the Dolbeault theorem, the corresponding sheaf cohomology isomorphism. This is a decomposition for , whose square is zero; it does not require the full Chern connection to be flat.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 18 5 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Choose a positive Hermitian metric on . Its curvature form is a Kähler form on the compact complex manifold of dimension one. Part (c) gives a threshold with for every . We use this to prescribe a finite principal part of a meromorphic section.
Fix a smooth cutoff supported inside the given coordinate chart and equal to one near . Let . On the punctured manifold define inside the chart, extended by zero outside. Its Dolbeault operatoris smooth globally: it vanishes near the pole and near the boundary of the chart. It is -closed, either by the square-zero identity or because there are no -forms in complex dimension one. The vanishing of , together with the Dolbeault theorem, therefore gives a global smooth section with .
The section is holomorphic on . Near , , so with holomorphic through zero. Its Taylor series then giveswhere the second series converges near zero and its coefficients are those of . The threshold is determined by the fixed bundle and , and is independent of the prescribed coefficients. In fact the same threshold works for every finite pole order , since the Dolbeault cohomology obstruction is the same for every such cutoff construction.
For a potential already smooth on all of , the associated form is a Kähler form exactly when the displayed two positivity conditions hold. The first gives a positive metric coefficient off the origin; the second is positivity of . The associated real metric is . Positivity away from the origin alone permits a degenerate metric at the origin.
On a nonempty compact Kähler manifold of complex dimension , the Kähler form is closed and . If for , then ; Stokes theorem contradicts the positive integral. Thus the de Rham cohomology is nonzero in every even degree through .
A complex torus with period matrix of a complex torus admits a Hodge metric precisely when there is a nonsingular integral skew-symmetric matrix satisfying the displayed conditions. The entries of are the periods of the invariant Kähler form over lattice two-tori. The first condition imposes type , and the second imposes positivity; the factor corresponds to the convention .
Spectral gap for powers of a positive line bundle Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-11-05
Let be a positive holomorphic line bundle on a compact complex manifold of complex dimension , and use as the Kähler form. There is a constant independent of the positive integer such that, on smooth -valued -forms with ,In particular, for sufficiently large , the Dolbeault Laplacian is bounded below by on every positive antiholomorphic degree.
To see the positive sign, identify these forms with -forms valued in , using the canonical bundle and its dual bundle. The Bochner-Kodaira-Nakano identity writes the quadratic form as a nonnegative derivative term plus the curvature commutator. The contribution acts by in bidegree ; the inverse-canonical contribution has uniformly bounded size on compact . This gives . Applying the curvature commutator directly in bidegree without this twist would give the wrong sign.[ref]
Complex Analytic and Differential Geometry by Jean-Pierre Demailly. Chapter VII, §§1–2, Bochner-Kodaira-Nakano identity and basic a priori inequality, printed pp.329–333
The estimate rules out nonzero harmonic forms in these degrees. The Dolbeault Hodge decomposition and Dolbeault theorem therefore imply for and sufficiently large . The additive constant matters for small powers; the linear spectral gap is an eventual statement.
SU3 stabilizer inside compact G2 2026-10-25
On , take and . The special unitary group preserves the Kähler form by unitarity and preserves by its unit determinant. Fixing therefore embeds it in the compact G2 stabilizer of . The complexified seven-dimensional representation restricts as .