In an adapted smooth unitary frame with input-index connection convention, the Chern connection matrix has blocks , where the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle has type . The Cartan curvature equation with input indices gives the displayed formula. If the ambient curvature is zero, is negative semidefinite. Dualizing the determinant line bundle therefore gives semipositive curvature.
For a nonzero holomorphic vector bundle on the curve, its degree of a holomorphic vector bundle and slope of a holomorphic vector bundle are
We obtain a bound independent of the particular holomorphic subbundle by fixing a Hermitian metric on a holomorphic vector bundle once and for all. Let be its Chern connection, its Chern curvature, and any positive area form on the compact Riemann surface. Write
Here is a smooth Hermitian endomorphism of . By compactness, its largest eigenvalue is bounded above by some finite constant on the whole curve.
Let be a holomorphic subbundle of positive rank , with the induced metric. Use the smooth orthogonal splitting of a vector subbundle . In this splitting the connection has block form
where is the projected Chern connection and is the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle. The latter has type : the part of preserves the holomorphic subbundle. The adjoint includes conjugation of the form factor and has type . Squaring this block matrix gives
This derives the curvature formula for a holomorphic subbundle in the column-vector convention used here. Locally write . Then
The degree of a holomorphic vector bundle is the trace-curvature integral, since the trace is the curvature of the determinant line bundle. Hence
The last integrand is a nonnegative real two-form and is independent of the local unitary frame and coordinate. Since , the compressed trace is at most pointwise. Therefore
This is the subbundle slope bound from ambient Chern curvature. The right side depends only on and the initially chosen metrics, and is finite. It proves the requested uniform upper bound for every positive-rank subbundle, without assuming any stability property of or using a bound that depends on .
The flat unitary connection on is its Chern connection, since it preserves the induced Hermitian metric and its part is the Dolbeault operator. Its curvature is zero. The trace-curvature formula for the degree of a holomorphic vector bundle therefore gives
For any positive-rank proper holomorphic subbundle , equip with the induced metric and use the block-connection calculation of Question 4(a). Since the ambient curvature vanishes, its Chern curvature is
where is the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle. Consequently
The term being integrated is nonnegative, so its sign gives the inequality for every such subbundle, not just for parallel subbundles. By the definition of a semistable holomorphic vector bundle,
If semistability is formulated using coherent subsheaves instead, saturate a subsheaf on the smooth curve. The saturation has the same rank, at least as large a degree, and is a subbundle because a torsion-free sheaf on a smooth curve is locally free. The inequality for the saturated subbundle therefore also bounds the original subsheaf. Finally, equality for a subbundle forces , so it is parallel; invariant subspaces of correspond to these degree-zero parallel subbundles. Semistability is the conclusion required here, rather than stability for every unitary representation.
The canonical bundle is , the holomorphic line bundle of holomorphic top forms on a complex -manifold. For an embedded complex submanifold of dimension , the holomorphic normal bundle is the quotient
Taking determinants and duals gives adjunction for a smooth submanifold:
For a closed smooth hypersurface, is its divisor line bundle, equipped with a holomorphic section whose zero divisor is with multiplicity one. If locally defines , local meromorphic generators transform by the holomorphic units . The stated normal-bundle relation is
Equivalently the conormal is . The closed-divisor interpretation is needed to define ; an arbitrary nonclosed local submanifold does not define that global divisor bundle.
For a holomorphic subbundle , define on sections of , with acting on the bundle factor of a bundle-valued form. It obeys the Leibniz rule. Since is holomorphic, lies in , so . For , their inner products with the normal components of vanish; hence projecting preserves metric compatibility. The uniqueness proved for the Chern connection identifies
This is the projected Chern connection.
Choose the adapted smooth unitary frame and retain Question 2's input-index convention. The connection matrix is skew-Hermitian. Its upper-left block is for ; writing the lower-left block as forces the upper-right block to be :
Holomorphicity of makes the normal part of vanish, so has type , and has type . The matrix represents the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle in this input-index convention. These types would appear in the opposite blocks with coefficient-column indices; they must not be swapped while retaining the printed minus-sign Cartan equation.
Take the upper-left block of the Cartan curvature equation with input indices. It is
Therefore the curvature formula for a holomorphic subbundle is
The sign and the order of the factors both follow from the displayed block multiplication.
Now let be a complex torus and a closed smooth hypersurface. The torus has a translation-invariant flat Kähler metric, and and are holomorphically trivial. Give its flat metric and apply the preceding formula to . Since ,
For a tangent vector , the latter coefficient is , so is a semipositive real form. Thus is a semipositive holomorphic line bundle. This proves the semipositive canonical bundle of a submanifold of a complex torus assertion directly from curvature. By adjunction for a smooth submanifold, .
Restrict a positive metric on to . The tensor-product metric on
has curvature , which is positive for every nonnegative integer . Hence
The integer condition is implicit in a tensor power. No assertion of strict positivity of is required.
For vanishing, write . The allowed Kodaira vanishing theorem says that on a compact Kähler manifold , for when is a positive holomorphic line bundle. Since is trivial, its application on the torus gives for .
For every , the divisor section gives the exact sequence
where . Crucially,
and is positive by the proved restriction statement. The induced Kähler metric makes compact Kähler, so Kodaira vanishing theorem on gives for all . In the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology, the segment
then has zero outside terms by induction. Therefore
This proves vanishing for divisor twists on a complex torus using restriction positivity and the divisor exact sequence, rather than presuming ambient positivity of every divisor twist.
The orthogonal projection is a smooth bundle map, since the Hermitian metric and the subbundle vary smoothly. The map
is independent of the representative, bijective on each fibre, and smooth with smooth inverse supplied by the quotient map on . Hence it is a natural isomorphism of smooth vector bundles. It need not be holomorphic. The quotient Hermitian metric is
It is well-defined and positive definite because represents each quotient class uniquely.
On sections of , set . The Leibniz rule makes a connection on a vector bundle. For , the orthogonal terms vanish in the metric pairing, so
Thus has metric compatibility. Because is a holomorphic subbundle, the part of preserves and restricts to . Therefore . The uniqueness of the Chern connection in part (b) gives the projected Chern connection formula
It follows that is a quotient-valued one-form. The printed target is missing a dual: the cotangent bundle is the correct factor,
Complex-valued forms use the complexified cotangent bundle here. In fact the part cancels, so is the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle, an element of . Finally the two connection Leibniz rules give
This proves its tensoriality and all the asserted quotient and projection properties.