Structural Invariance of Green--Griffiths--Demailly Thresholds on Compact Complex Orbifolds
Gunhee Cho, Myungsin Cho
TL;DR
The paper addresses whether Green--Griffiths--Demailly hyperbolicity thresholds are preserved when moving from a smooth compact complex manifold to a compact complex orbifold or analytic Deligne--Mumford stack with the same coarse Kähler class. It develops a chartwise orbifold HRR framework and shows that the leading term in the Euler characteristic of invariant jet bundles comes from the identity sector and scales by the generic stabilizer factor $1/s$, while twisted sectors contribute only $O(m^{n-1})$ due to fixed-point denominators. By constructing and descending the Demailly--Semple tower on orbifolds, and proving L^2 vanishing and Bochner-type estimates in the orbifold setting, the authors show that the existence range of invariant jet differentials—and hence the GGD threshold—depends only on the coarse Kähler class. Consequently, orbifold compactification or rigidification does not alter the GGD thresholds, with the results tying together Satake–Kawasaki index theory and stack Riemann--Roch to establish a robust invariance principle with potential applications to moduli and hyperbolicity phenomena.
Abstract
We prove that the Green--Griffiths--Demailly (GGD) hyperbolicity thresholds are structurally invariant. In other words, the minimal jet order and asymptotic growth rate at which invariant jet differentials appear remain unchanged when passing from a compact complex manifold to any compact smooth analytic Deligne--Mumford stack (orbifold) with the same coarse Kähler class. We establish an orbifold Riemann--Roch formula showing that only the identity sector contributes to the leading $m^n$ term of the Euler characteristic $χ$, while all twisted sectors contribute only $O(m^{n-1})$. Together with curvature--positivity properties of the Demailly--Semple tower, this implies that the existence range of invariant jet differentials depends solely on the coarse Kähler class--hence orbifold compactification or rigidification does not alter the GGD threshold or the hyperbolicity locus.
