Spinc Structures and Scalar Curvature Estimates

In this note, we look at estimates for the scalar curvature of a compact, connected Riemannian manifold Mwhich are related to spin^c Dirac operators.We show that one may not enlarge a Kähler metric with positiveRicci curvature without making smaller somewhere on M.More generally, if f: N M is an area-nonincreasing map of a certain topological type,then the scalar curvature k of Ncannot be everywhere larger than f.If k f, then N is isometric to M × F, where F possesses a parallel untwisted spinor.We also give explicit upper bounds for min for arbitrary Riemannian metrics on certainsubmanifolds of complex projective space.In certain cases, these estimates are sharp:we give examples where equality is obtained.