Rearrangement of Energy Levels Between Energy Super-Bands Characterized by Second Chern Class

We generalize the dynamical analog of the Berry geometric phase setup to the quaternionic model of Avron et al. In our dynamical quaternionic system, the fast half-integer spin subsystem interacts with a slow two-degrees-of-freedom subsystem. The model is invariant under the 1:1:2 weighted SO(2) symmetry and spin inversion. There is one formal control parameter in addition to four dynamical variables of the slow subsystem. We demonstrate that the most elementary qualitative phenomenon associated with the rearrangement of the energy super-bands of our model consists of the rearrangement of one energy level between two energy superbands which takes place when the formal control parameter takes the special isolated value associated with the conical degeneracy of the semi-quantum eigenvalues. This qualitative phenomenon is of the topological origin, and is characterized by the second Chern class of the associated semi-quantum system. The correspondence between the number of redistributed energy levels and the second Chern number is confirmed through a series of examples.

On the positivity of the first Chern class of an Ulrich vector bundle

We study the positivity of the first Chern class of a rank [Formula: see text] Ulrich vector bundle [Formula: see text] on a smooth [Formula: see text]-dimensional variety [Formula: see text]. We prove that [Formula: see text] is very positive on every subvariety not contained in the union of lines in [Formula: see text]. In particular, if [Formula: see text] is not covered by lines we have that [Formula: see text] is big and [Formula: see text]. Moreover we classify rank [Formula: see text] Ulrich vector bundles [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] on surfaces and with [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] on threefolds (with some exceptions).

The Kodaira Problem for Kähler Spaces with Vanishing First Chern Class

Let X be a normal compact Kähler space with klt singularities and torsion canonical bundle. We show that X admits arbitrarily small deformations that are projective varieties if its locally trivial deformation space is smooth. We then prove that this unobstructedness assumption holds in at least three cases: if X has toroidal singularities, if X has finite quotient singularities and if the cohomology group ${\mathrm {H}^{2} \!\left ( X, {\mathscr {T}_{X}} \right )}$ vanishes.

The Bogomolov-Beauville-Yau decomposition for klt projective varieties with trivial first Chern class - without tears

We give a simplified proof (in characteristic zero) of the decomposition theorem for connected complex projective varieties with klt singularities and a numerically trivial canonical bundle. The proof mainly consists in reorganizing some of the partial results obtained by many authors and used in the previous proof but avoids those in positive characteristic by S. Druel. The single, to some extent new, contribution is an algebraicity and bimeromorphic splitting result for generically locally trivial fibrations with fibers without holomorphic vector fields. We first give the proof in the easier smooth case, following the same steps as in the general case, treated next. The last two words of the title are plagiarized from [4].

Chern Class Inequalities on Polarized Manifolds and Nef Vector Bundles

This article is concerned with Chern class and Chern number inequalities on polarized manifolds and nef vector bundles. For a polarized pair $(M,L)$ with $L$ very ample, our 1st main result is a family of sharp Chern class inequalities. Among them the 1st one is a variant of a classical result and the equality case of the 2nd one is a characterization of hypersurfaces. The 2nd main result is a Chern number inequality on it, which includes a reverse Miyaoka–Yau-type inequality. The 3rd main result is that the Chern numbers of a nef vector bundle over a compact Kähler manifold are bounded below by the Euler number. As an application, we classify compact Kähler manifolds with nonnegative bisectional curvature whose Chern numbers are all positive. A conjecture related to the Euler number of compact Kähler manifolds with nonpositive bisectional curvature is proposed, which can be regarded as a complex analogue to the Hopf conjecture.

On manifolds with infinitely many fillable contact structures

We introduce the notion of asymptotically finitely generated contact structures, which states essentially that the Symplectic Homology in a certain degree of any filling of such contact manifolds is uniformly generated by only finitely many Reeb orbits. This property is used to generalize a famous result by Ustilovsky: We show that in a large class of manifolds (including all unit cotangent bundles and all Weinstein fillable contact manifolds with torsion first Chern class) each carries infinitely many exactly fillable contact structures. These are all different from the ones constructed recently by Lazarev. Along the way, the construction of Symplectic Homology is made more general. Moreover, we give a detailed exposition of Cieliebak’s Invariance Theorem for subcritical handle attaching, where we provide explicit Hamiltonians for the squeezing on the handle.

Degeneracy loci, virtual cycles and nested Hilbert schemes II

We express nested Hilbert schemes of points and curves on a smooth projective surface as ‘virtual resolutions’ of degeneracy loci of maps of vector bundles on smooth ambient spaces. We show how to modify the resulting obstruction theories to produce the virtual cycles of Vafa–Witten theory and other sheaf-counting problems. The result is an effective way of calculating invariants (VW, SW, local PT and local DT) via Thom–Porteous-like Chern class formulae.

Fujiki class 𝒞 and holomorphic geometric structures

For compact complex manifolds with vanishing first Chern class that are compact torus principal bundles over Kähler manifolds, we prove that all holomorphic geometric structures on them, of affine type, are locally homogeneous. For a compact simply connected complex manifold in Fujiki class [Formula: see text], whose dimension is strictly larger than the algebraic dimension, we prove that it does not admit any holomorphic rigid geometric structure, and also it does not admit any holomorphic Cartan geometry of algebraic type. We prove that compact complex simply connected manifolds in Fujiki class [Formula: see text] and with vanishing first Chern class do not admit any holomorphic Cartan geometry of algebraic type.

On the group of zero-cycles of holomorphic symplectic varieties

For a moduli space of Bridgeland-stable objects on a K3 surface, we show that the Chow class of a point is determined by the Chern class of the corresponding object on the surface. This establishes a conjecture of Junliang Shen, Qizheng Yin, and the second author.