Dolbeault Laplacian Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Lefschetz operator of a Kähler manifold Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The Lefschetz operator of a Kähler manifold is exterior multiplication by its Kähler form,Its formal adjoint is denoted by and lowers the bidegree of a differential form by .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 118 4 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Riemannian metric on a complex manifold is a Kähler metric when its complex-linear extension is a Hermitian form on each tangent space and its fundamental two-formis closed. Equivalently, is a positive real closed -form, making a Kähler manifold.
The Lefschetz operator of a Kähler manifold and its adjoint areBecause and has type , both and vanish. The graded Leibniz rule therefore gives .
Writing formal adjoints with stars, define the three Laplacians byThe supplied Kähler identities identity gives, by complex conjugation and taking adjoints,Expanding these commutators and using shows that the mixed terms in vanish and that . Since , it follows that
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 118 1 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Kähler manifold has a real closed -form for which is positive definite. The Fubini-Study form has these properties on . Pullback by the holomorphic inclusion preserves reality, type, and closedness, while positivity restricts to every nonzero vector in . Hence is a Kähler form on .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 118 2 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Choose a small ball whose translates by distinct lattice elements are disjoint. The restrictions of the quotient map to translates of supply holomorphic charts, because every transition map is a complex translation. A closed fundamental parallelepiped is compact and surjects onto the quotient, so the resulting complex torus is compact.
The standard formis translation invariant and therefore descends uniquely to a form with . It remains closed, of type , and positive, so it is a Kähler form.