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Lectures on Kähler Geometry

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521688973, 9780521688970
Open Library ID
OL7752094M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
912 kB (933888 bytes)
Series
London Mathematical Society Student Texts
Pages
183\183
Time added
2011-01-06 10:13:16

Description

Kähler geometry is a beautiful and intriguing area of mathematics, of substantial research interest to both mathematicians and physicists. This self-contained graduate text provides a concise and accessible introduction to the topic. The book begins with a review of basic differential geometry, before moving on to a description of complex manifolds and holomorphic vector bundles. Kähler manifolds are discussed from the point of view of Riemannian geometry, and Hodge and Dolbeault theories are outlined, together with a simple proof of the famous Kähler identities. The final part of the text studies several aspects of compact Kähler manifolds: the Calabi conjecture, Weitzenböck techniques, Calabi-Yau manifolds, and divisors. All sections of the book end with a series of exercises and students and researchers working in the fields of algebraic and differential geometry and theoretical physics will find that the book provides them with a sound understanding of this theory.

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