Kähler Immersions of Kähler Manifolds into Complex Space Forms

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The aim of this book is to describe Calabi's original work on Kähler immersions of Kähler manifolds into complex space forms, to provide a detailed account of what is known today on the subject and to point out some open problems. Calabi's pioneering work, making use of the powerful tool of the diastasis function, allowed him to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a neighbourhood of a point to be locally Kähler immersed into a finite or infinite-dimensional complex space form. This led to a classification of (finite-dimensional) complex space forms admitting a Kähler immersion into another, and to decades of further research on the subject. Each chapter begins with a brief summary of the topics to be discussed and ends with a list of exercises designed to test the reader's understanding. Apart from the section on Kähler immersions of homogeneous bounded domains into the infinite complex projective space, which could be skipped without compromising the understanding of the rest of the book, the prerequisites to read this book are a basic knowledge of complex and Kähler geometry. Front Matter ....Pages i-x The Diastasis Function (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 1-11 Calabi’s Criterion (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 13-28 Homogeneous Kähler Manifolds (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 29-45 Kähler–Einstein Manifolds (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 47-61 Hartogs Type Domains (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 63-74 Relatives (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 75-82 Further Examples and Open Problems (Andrea Loi, Michela Zedda)....Pages 83-93 Back Matter ....Pages 95-100