Uniqueness of the complex structure on Kähler manifolds of certain homotopy types
Uniqueness of the complex structure on Kähler manifolds of certain homotopy types
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DOI:
10.4310/jdg/1214445041
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
A. Libgober;John W. Wood
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作者:
A. Libgober;John W. Wood
In this note we show that the homotopy types of certain complex projective spaces and quadrics support a unique complex structure of Kahler type. Structures on complex projective space have attracted much attention. Hirzebruch and Kodaira [14], [11, p. 231] showed that a Kahler manifold V with the homotopy type and Pontryagin classes of CPn is analytically equivalent to CPn their additional assumption that cx(V) Φ —(n — \)x for even n was later removed by Yau's work [31]. Here x denotes the generator of H(V Z) which is positive in the sense that it is the fundamental class of some Kahler metric on V [13, §18.1]. On the other hand it is known that for every n > 2 the homotopy type of CPn supports infinitely many inequivalent differentiable structures distinguished by their Pontryagin classes (see Montgomery and Yang [25] or Wall [30] for n 3 and Hsiang [15] for n > 3). Moreover for n — 3 or 4 each of these smooth structures can be shown to support almost complex structures. In §7 we prove this for the case n = 4 by applying results of Brumfiel and Heaps. The main result of this paper is that for n < 6 these other smoothings of a homotopy CPn do not support a Kahler structure. Theorem 1. A Kahler manifold homotopy equivalent to CPn for n < 6 is analytically equivalent to CPn . It follows from the Kodaira embedding theorem that any homotopy complex projective space with a Kahler structure is projective algebraic, i.e., is analytically equivalent to a nonsingular subvariety of a higher dimensional projective space [13, §18.1]. In [31], Yau applied a criterion of Kodaira to show that a complex manifold homotopy equivalent to CP2 is algebraic (hence Kahler) and showed moreover that it is analytically equivalent to CP2. It is still an open question whether a complex manifold