Commutative automorphism groups of a compact Kähler manifold (Q701891)

Let \(V\) be a compact Kähler manifold of dimension \(n \geq 2\). In this paper the notion of positive entropy is used to describe abelian subgroups of \(\text{Aut}(V)\), where by results of \textit{M. Gromov} [Enseign. Math., II. Sér. 49, No. 3--4, 217--235 (2003; Zbl 1080.37051), Sémin. Bourbaki, 38ème année, Vol. 1985/86, Exposé 663, Astérisque 145/146, 225--240 (1987; Zbl 0611.58041)] and \textit{Y. Yomdin} [Isr. J. Math. 57, 285--300 (1987; Zbl 0641.54036)] a holomorphic endomorphism of \(V\) has positive entropy if and only if the spectral radius of the induced map \(f^*\) on \({\mathcal H}^{1,1}(V,{\mathbb R})\) is strictly greater than one. The main result is the following. Suppose \(G\subset \Aut(V)\) is an abelian subgroup. Then the set \(U\) of elements in \(G\) of zero entropy is a subgroup and \(G \simeq U\times H\), where \(H\) is a subgroup of \(G\) with all elements of \(H - \{ e \}\) being of positive entropy. The authors also show that \(H\) is a free abelian group with \(\text{rank}(H) \leq n-1\) (the estimate is sharp) and if \(\text{rank}(H) = n-1\), then \(U\) is finite. Other inequalities connecting \(\text{rank}(H)\) and the dimensions of various Dolbeault cohomology groups of \(V\) are also derived.