Hermitian vector bundles and extension groups on arithmetic schemes. I. Geometry of numbers

We define and investigate extension groups in the context of Arakelov geometry. The “arithmetic extension groups” we introduce are extensions by groups of analytic types of the usual extension groups attached to OX-modules F and G over an arithmetic scheme X. In this paper, we focus on the first arithmetic extension group - the elements of which may be described in terms of admissible short exact sequences of hermitian vector bundles over X - and we especially consider the case when X is an “arithmetic curve”, namely the spectrum SpecOK of the ring of integers in some number field K. Then the study of arithmetic extensions over X is related to old and new problems concerning lattices and the geometry of numbers.Namely, for any two hermitian vector bundles and over X:=SpecOK, we attach a logarithmic size to any element α of , and we give an upper bound on in terms of slope invariants of and . We further illustrate this notion by relating the sizes of restrictions to points in P¹(Z) of the universal extension over to the geometry of PSL₂(Z) acting on Poincaré's upper half-plane, and by deducing some quantitative results in reduction theory from our previous upper bound on sizes. Finally, we investigate the behaviour of size by base change (i.e., under extension of the ground field K to a larger number field K^′): when the base field K is Q, we establish that the size, which cannot increase under base change, is actually invariant when the field K^′ is an abelian extension of K, or when is a direct sum of root lattices and of lattices of Voronoi's first kind.The appendices contain results concerning extensions in categories of sheaves on ringed spaces, and lattices of Voronoi's first kind which might also be of independent interest.     

Holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles over the Riemann sphere

We give a complete classification of isomorphism classes of all SU(2)-equivariant holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles on CP¹. We construct a canonical bijective correspondence between the isomorphism classes of SU(2)-equivariant holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles on CP¹ and the isomorphism classes of pairs ({Hn}_n∈Z,T), where each Hn is a finite dimensional Hilbert space with Hn=0 for all but finitely many n, and T is a linear operator on the direct sum _⊕n∈ZHn such that T(Hn)⊂Hn+2 for all n.     

Nonnegatively curved vector bundles with large normal holonomy groups

When is a biquotient, we show that there exist vector bundles over with metrics of nonnegative curvature whose normal holonomy groups have arbitrarily large dimension.

     

Curvature and holomorphic sections of Hermitian bundles

Dedicated to Yurii Grigor'evich Reshetnyak on his sixtieth birthday.     

Grothendieck groups of abelian group rings

Let R be a noetherian ring, and G(R) the Grothendieck group of finitely generated modules over R. For a finite abelian group π, we describe G(Rπ) as the direct sum of groups G(R'). Each R' is the form R[ζ_n, 1/n], where n is a positive integer and ζ_n a primitive nth root of unity. As an application, we describe the structure of the Grothendiek group of pairs (H, u), where H is an abelian group and u is an automorphism of H of finite order.     

ACM vector bundles on scrolls

Here we show that certain low rank ACM vector bundles on scrolls over smooth curves are iterated extensions of line bundles. Partially supported by MIUR and GNSAGA of INDAM (Italy)     

Uniform vector bundles on quadrics

Summary In this paper we prove that a rankr uniform vector bundle on a nonsingular quadricQ with dimQ≥2r+2 is a direct sum of line bundles. We study also rank 2 uniform vector bundles onP ₁×P₁. We prove that they are not all homogeneous and that any rank 2 homogeneous vector bundles onP ₁×P₁ is decomposable.

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Riassunto In questo lavoro si dimostra che un fibrato uniforme di rangor su una quadrica non singolareQ con dimQ≥2r+2 è somma diretta di fibrati in rette. Si studiano poi i fibrati uniformi di rango 2 suP ₁×P₁. Si dimostra che non sono tutti omogenei e che ogni fibrato omogeneo di rango 2 suP ₁×P₁ è decomponibile.

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The author is member of G.N.S.A.G.A. of C.N.R.     

Regulous vector bundles

Among recently introduced new notions in real algebraic geometry is that of regulous functions. Such functions form a foundation for the development of regulous geometry. Several interesting results on regulous varieties and regulous sheaves are already available. In this paper, we define and investigate regulous vector bundles. We establish algebraic and geometric properties of such vector bundles, and identify them with stratified‐algebraic vector bundles. Furthermore, using new results on curve‐rational functions, we characterize regulous vector bundles among families of vector spaces parametrized by an affine regulous variety. We also study relationships between regulous and topological vector bundles.     

Raynaud vector bundles

We construct vector bundles on a smooth projective curve X having the property that for all sheaves E of slope μ and rank rk on X we have an equivalence: E is a semistable vector bundle . As a byproduct of our construction we obtain effective bounds on r such that the linear system |R·Θ| has base points on U _X (r, r(g − 1)).      

Poisson transforms on vector bundles

Let be a connected real semisimple Lie group with finite center, and a maximal compact subgroup of . Let be an irreducible unitary representation of , and the associated vector bundle. In the algebra of invariant differential operators on the center of the universal enveloping algebra of induces a certain commutative subalgebra . We are able to determine the characters of . Given such a character we define a Poisson transform from certain principal series representations to the corresponding space of joint eigensections. We prove that for most of the characters this map is a bijection, generalizing a famous conjecture by Helgason which corresponds to the trivial representation.