Hodge-theoretic variants of the Hopf and Singer Conjectures
Donu Arapura, Laurentiu Maxim, Botong Wang
Abstract
We propose several Hodge theoretic analogues of the conjectures of Hopf and Singer, and prove them in some special cases.
Donu Arapura, Laurentiu Maxim, Botong Wang
We propose several Hodge theoretic analogues of the conjectures of Hopf and Singer, and prove them in some special cases.
This paper contains 9 sections, 7 theorems, 28 equations.
Theorem 1.5
If $X$ is a compact Kähler (resp., complex projective) manifold with a nef (resp., ample) tangent bundle $TX$ (e.g., $X$ has a non-negative (resp., positive) sectional curvature), then $\chi(X) \geq 0$ (resp., $>0$).