Some curvature properties of complex surfaces

Summary In this paper, we are investigating curvature properties of complex two-dimensional Hermitian manifolds, particularly in the compact case. To do this, we start with the remark that the fundamental form of such a manifold is integrable, and we use the analogy with the locally conformal KÄhler manifolds, which follows from this remark. Among the obtained results, we have the following: a compact Hermitian surface for which either the Riemannian curvature tensor satisfies the KÄhler symmetries or the Hermitian curvature tensor satisfies the Riemannian Bianchi identity is KÄhler; a compact Hermitian surface of constant sectional curvature is a flat KÄhler surface; a compact Hermitian surface M with nonnegative nonidentical zero holomorphie Hermitian bisectional curvature has vanishing plurigenera, c₁(M) 0, and no exceptional curves; a compact Hermitian surface with distinguished metric, and positive integral Riemannian scalar curvature has vanishing plurigenera, etc.     

Compact self-dual Hermitian surfaces

In this paper, we obtain a classification (up to conformal equivalence) of the compact self-dual Hermitian surfaces. As an application, we prove that every compact Hermitian surface of pointwise constant holomorphic sectional curvature with respect to either the Riemannian or the Hermitian connection is Kähler.

     

On Hermitian surfaces with J-invariant Ricci tensor

We prove that a compact Hermitian surface with J-invariant Ricci tensor is K?hler provided that the difference of its scalar and conformal scalar curvature is constant. In particular, there are no locally homogeneous examples of such surfaces with odd first Betti number. Received 20 July 2000.     

Stability problems in a theorem of F. Schur

Schur's theorem states that an isotropic Riemannian manifold of dimension greater than two has constant curvature. It is natural to guess that compact almost isotropic Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than two are close to spaces of almost constant curvature. We take the curvature anisotropy as the discrepancy of the sectional curvatures at a point. The main result of this paper is that Riemannian manifolds in Cheeger's class ℜ(n,d,V,A) withL ₁-small integral anisotropy haveL _p-small change of the sectional curvature over the manifold. We also estimate the deviation of the metric tensor from that of constant curvature in theW _p ² -norm, and prove that compact almost isotropic spaces inherit the differential structure of a space form. These stability results are based on the generalization of Schur' theorem to metric spaces.     

Almost hermitian manifolds and Osserman condition

Let(M, g, J) be an almost Hermitian manifold. In this paper we study holomorphically nonnegatively(δ,Δ)-pinched almost Hermitian manifolds. In [3] it was shown that for such Kahler manifolds a plane with maximal sectional curvature has to be a holomorphic plane(J-invariant). Here we generalize this result to arbitrary almost Hermitian manifolds with respect to the holomorphic curvature tensorH R and toRK-manifolds of a constant type λ(p). In the proof some estimates of the sectional curvature are established. The results obtained are used to characterize almost Hermitian manifolds of constant holomorphic sectional curvature (with respect to holomorphic and Riemannian curvature tensor) in terms of the eigenvalues of the Jacobi-type operators, i.e. to establish partial cases of the Osserman conjecture. Some examples are studied. The first author is partially supported by SFS, Project #04M03.     

Compact Hermitian surfaces of Einstein type with respect to the Hermitian connection

Two Einstein-type conditions for the Hermitian curvature tensor are considered on a compact Hermitian surface: It is proved that if the symmetric part of the Ricci tensors is a scalar multiple of the metric with a negative constant, then the metric is Kaehler. If the Hermitian surface satisfies the Hermite-Einstein condition with a non positive constant, then the metric is Kaehler.Supported by Contract MM 413/1994 with the Ministry of Science and Education of Bulgaria.Supported by Contract MM 423/1994 with the Ministry of Science and Education of Bulgaria and by Contract 219/1994 with the University of Sofia St. Kl. Ohridski.     

On Einstein Hermitian Surfaces

We show that every compact Einstein Hermitian surface with constant conformal scalar curvature is a Kahler surface and that, in contrast to the compact case, there exits a noncompact Einstein Hermitian and non-Kahler surface with constant conformal scalar curvature.     

双扭曲积Hermitian流形

主要研究双扭曲积Hermitian流形的各种曲率,给出了紧致非平凡的双扭曲积Hermitian流形具有常全纯截面曲率的充要条件,得到了一种构造满足第一或第二爱因斯坦条件的Hermitian流形的有效方法.     

Almost Hermitian 4-manifolds of pointwise constant anti-holomorphic sectional curvature

We show that a 4-dimensional almost Hermitian manifold (M, J, g) is of pointwise constant anti-holomorphic sectional curvature if and only if (M, J, g) is self-dual with J-invariant Ricci tensor and K₁₂₁₂ = 0, where K is the complexification of the Riemannian curvature tensor.     

An Equivalence of Scalar Curvatures on Hermitian Manifolds

For a Kähler metric, the Riemannian scalar curvature is equal to twice the Chern scalar curvature. The question we address here is whether this equivalence can hold for a non-Kähler Hermitian metric. For such metrics, if they exist, the Chern scalar curvature would have the same geometric meaning as the Riemannian scalar curvature. Recently, Liu–Yang showed that if this equivalence of scalar curvatures holds even in average over a compact Hermitian manifold, then the metric must in fact be Kähler. However, we prove that a certain class of non-compact complex manifolds do admit Hermitian metrics for which this equivalence holds. Subsequently, the question of to what extent the behavior of said metrics can be dictated is addressed and a classification theorem is proved.     

Almost Hermitian structures induced from a Kähler structure which has constant holomorphic sectional curvature

We obtain a non-Kähler almost Hermitian manifold of constant holomorphic sectional curvature by changing the almost complex structure in a Kähler manifold of constant holomorphic sectional curvature.

     

RC-positivity and rigidity of harmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds Dedicated to Professor Lo Yang on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

In this paper,we show that every harmonic map from a compact K?hler manifold with uniformly RC-positive curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature is constant.In particular,there is no non-constant harmonic map from a compact Koahler manifold with positive holomorphic sectional curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature.     

Simple root flows for Hitchin representations

On a Kähler manifold there is a clear connection between the complex geometry and underlying Riemannian geometry. In some ways, this can be used to characterize the Kähler condition. While such a link is not so obvious in the non-Kähler setting, one can seek to understand extensions of these characterizations to general Hermitian manifolds. This idea has been the subject of much study from the cohomological side, however, the focus here is to address such a question from the perspective of curvature relationships. In particular, on compact manifolds the Kähler condition is characterized by the relationship that the Chern scalar curvature is equal to half the Riemannian scalar curvature. What we study here is the existence, or lack thereof, of non-Kähler Hermitian metrics for which a more general proportionality relationship between these scalar curvatures holds.     

Curvature,diameter and betti numbers

We give an upper bound for the Betti numbers of a compact Riemannian manifold in terms of its diameter and the lower bound of the sectional curvatures. This estimate in particular shows that most manifolds admit no metrics of non-negative sectional curvature.     

Connection metrics of nonnegative curvature on vector bundles

Abstract It is shown that a vector bundleE over a compact positively curved manifold admits complete Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature, provided there exists a Riemannian connection onE with almost parallel curvature tensor. Supported in part by a grant from the N.S.F. (second author).     

Some examples of Hermitian surfaces

The Riemannian version of the Goldberg-Sachs theorem says that a compact Einstein Hermitian surface is locally conformal Kähler. In contrast to the compact case, we show that there exists an Einstein Hermitian surface which is not locally conformal Kähler. On the other hand, it is known that on a compact Hermitian surface M ⁴, the zero scalar curvature defect implies that M ⁴ is Kähler. Contrary to the compact case, we show that there exists a non-Kähler Hermitian surface with zero scalar curvature defect.     

Rigidity of linear Weingarten hypersurfaces in locally symmetric manifolds

Our purpose in this paper is to study the rigidity of complete linear Weingarten hypersurfaces immersed in a locally symmetric manifold obeying some standard curvature conditions (in particular, in a Riemannian space with constant sectional curvature). Under appropriated constrains on the scalar curvature function, we prove that such a hypersurface must be either totally umbilical or isometric to an isoparametric hypersurface with two distinct principal curvatures, one of them being simple. Furthermore, we also deal with the parabolicity of these hypersurfaces with respect to a suitable Cheng–Yau modified operator.     

On the existence of complete Kähler metrics of negative Riemannian curvature bounded away from zero on ellipsoidal domains inC n

Summary The purpose of this paper is to prove that every ellipsoidal domain in Cⁿ admits a complete Kähler metric whose Riemannian sectional curvature is bounded from above by a negative constant (Theorem 1). We construct a Kähler metric, in a natural way, as potential of a suitable function defining the boundary (§2). Directly we compute the curvature tensor and we find upper and lower bounds for the holomorphic sectional curvature (§ 4, § 5). In order to prove the boundness of Riemannian sectional curvature we use finally a classical pinching argument (§ 6). We also obtain that for certain ellipsoidal domains the curvature tensor is very strongly negative in the sense of [15] (§ 3). Finally we prove that the metric constructed on ellipsoidal domains in Cⁿ is the Bergman metric if and only if the domain is biholomorphic to the ball (Theorem 2). In [8], [9] R. E. Greene and S. G. Krantz gave large families of examples of complete Kähler manifolds with Riemannian sectional curvature bounded from above by a negative constant; they are sufficiently small deformations of the ball in Cⁿ, with the Bergman metric. Before the only known example of complete simply-connected Kähler manifold with Riemannian sectional curvature upper bounded by a negative constant, not biholomorphic to the ball, was the surface constructed by G. D. Mostow and Y. T. Siu in [14], to the best of the author's knowledge, is not known at present if this example is biholomorphic to a domain in Cⁿ.     

Finsler manifolds with nonpositive flag curvature and constant S-curvature

The flag curvature is a natural extension of the sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry, and the S-curvature is a non-Riemannian quantity which vanishes for Riemannian metrics. There are (incomplete) non-Riemannian Finsler metrics on an open subset in Rⁿ with negative flag curvature and constant S-curvature. In this paper, we are going to show a global rigidity theorem that every Finsler metric with negative flag curvature and constant S-curvature must be Riemannian if the manifold is compact. We also study the nonpositive flag curvature case.supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10371138).     

Harmonic and holomorphic 1-forms on compact balanced Hermitian manifolds

On compact balanced Hermitian manifolds we obtain obstructions to the existence of harmonic 1-forms, ∂-harmonic (1,0)-forms and holomorphic (1,0)-forms in terms of the Ricci tensors with respect to the Riemannian curvature and the Hermitian curvature. Necessary and sufficient conditions the (1,0)-part of a harmonic 1-form to be holomorphic and vice versa, a real 1-form with a holomorphic (1,0)-part to be harmonic are found. The vanishing of the first Dolbeault cohomology groups of the twistor space of a compact irreducible hyper-Kähler manifold is shown.