Chern numbers of almost complex manifolds

It is shown that any system of numbers that can be realised as the system of Chern numbers of an almost complex manifold of dimension , , can also be realised in this way by a connected almost complex manifold. This answers an old question posed by Hirzebruch.

     

Quasi-invariant manifolds,stability, and generalized Hopf bifurcation

Sunto Viene compiuta un'analisi completa del problema della biforcazione di Hopf relativa ad arbitrarie piccole perturbazioni del secondo membro di un'equazione differenziale in Rⁿ, p=f₀(p). Gli autovalori di f₀(O) soddisfano una condizione di non risonanza. I risultati sono forniti in termini delle proprietá di stabilità di un sistema dinamico piano convenientemente associato all'equazione imperturbata.

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Research partially supported by U.S. Army Research Grant DAAG-29-80-C-0060 and by C.N.R. (Italian Council of Research) contr. 79.00696.01.

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Work performed under the auspices of the National Group of Math, Phys. of C.N.R.     

Kähler-Ricci solitons on toric manifolds with positive first Chern class

In this paper we prove there exists a Kähler-Ricci soliton, unique up to holomorphic automorphisms, on any toric Kähler manifold with positive first Chern class, and the Kähler-Ricci soliton is a Kähler-Einstein metric if and only if the Futaki invariant vanishes.     

Chern numbers for two families of noncommutative Hopf fibrations

We consider noncommutative line bundles associated with the Hopf fibrations of SU_q(2) over all Podle? spheres and with a locally trivial Hopf fibration of S³_pq. These bundles are given as finitely generated projective modules associated via 1-dimensional representations of U(1) with Galois-type extensions encoding the principal fibrations of SU_q(2) and S³_pq. We show that the Chern numbers of these modules coincide with the winding numbers of representations defining them. To cite this article: P.M. Hajac et al., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).     

On the class of generalized Landsberg manifolds

In 2000, Bejancu–Farran introduced the class of generalized Landsberg manifolds which contains the class of Landsberg manifolds. In this paper, we prove three global results for generalized Landsberg manifolds. First, we show that every compact generalized Landsberg manifold is a Landsberg manifold. Then we prove that every complete generalized Landsberg manifold with relatively isotropic Landsberg curvature reduces to a Landsberg manifold. Finally, we show that every generalized Landsberg manifold with vanishing Douglas curvature satisfies \(\mathbf{H}=0\).     

Submanifolds with flat normal bundle in spaces of constant curvature

In the present paper parallel submanifolds and focal points of a given submanifold with flat normal bundle are discussed provided that the ambient space has constant sectional curvature. We present shape operators of parallel submanifolds with respect to arbitrary normal vectors. Furthermore, we prove that the focal points of a submanifold with flat normal bundle form totally geodesic hypersurfaces in the normal submanifolds.Supported by Hungarian Nat. Found. for Sci. Research Grant No. 1615 (1991).Dedicated to Professor J. Strommer on the occasion of his 75th birthday     

The generalized Chern conjecture for manifolds that are locally a product of surfaces

We consider closed manifolds that admit a metric locally isometric to a product of symmetric planes. For such manifolds, we prove that the Euler characteristic is an obstruction to the existence of flat structures, confirming an old conjecture proved by Milnor in dimension 2. In particular, the Chern conjecture follows in these cases. The proof goes via a new sharp Milnor–Wood inequality for Riemannian manifolds that are locally a product of hyperbolic planes. Furthermore, we analyze the possible flat vector bundles over such manifolds. Over closed Hilbert–Blumenthal modular varieties, we show that there are finitely many flat structures with nonzero Euler number and none of them corresponds to the tangent bundle. Some of the main results were announced in [M. Bucher, T. Gelander, Milnor–Wood inequalities for manifolds locally isometric to a product of hyperbolic planes, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I 346 (2008) 661–666].     

The characteristic Chern type classes and integrability of multidimensional differential systems on Riemannian manifolds

The differential-geometric properties of generalized de Rham-Hodge complexes naturally related with integrable multidimensional differential systems of M. Gromov type are analyzed. The geometric structure of Chern type characteristic classes are studied, special differential invariants of the Chern type are constructed. The integrability of multi-dimensional nonlinear differential systems on Riemannian manifolds is discussed. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A class of metrics and foliations on tangent bundle of Finsler manifolds

Let (M,F) be a Finsler manifold, and let TM ₀ be the slit tangent bundle of M with a generalized Riemannian metric G, which is induced by F. In this paper, we extract many natural foliations of (TM ₀,G) and study their geometric properties. Next, we use this approach to obtain new characterizations of Finsler manifolds with positive constant flag curvature. We also investigate the relations between Levi-Civita connection, Cartan connection, Vaisman connection, vertical foliation, and Reinhart spaces.     

The first Chern class and conformal area for a twistor holomorphic immersion

We obtain an inequality involving the first Chern class of the normal bundle and the conformal area for a twistor holomorphic surface. Using this inequality, we can improve an inequality obtained by T. Friedrich for the Euler class of the normal bundle of a twistor holomorphic surface in the four-dimensional space form. Moreover, as a corollary, we see that the area of a superminimal surface in the unit sphere is an integer multiple of $2 \pi $ , which is essentially proved by E. Calabi.     

Residue formulation of the Chern character on smooth manifolds

The Chern character of a complex vector bundle is most conveniently defined as the exponential of a curvature of a connection. It is well known that its cohomology class does not depend on the particular connection chosen. It has been shown by Quillen that a connection may be perturbed by an endomorphism of the vector bundle, such as a symbol of some elliptic differential operator. This point of view, as we intend to show, allows one to relate Chern character to a noncommutative sibling formulated by Connes and Moscovici.     

Chern numbers and diffeomorphism types of projective varieties

In 1954, Hirzebruch asked which linear combinations of Chernnumbers are topological invariants of smooth complex projectivevarieties. We give a complete answer to this question in smalldimensions, and also prove partial results without restrictionson the dimension. Received June 22, 2007.