Chern classes of automorphic vector bundles.

DOI10.1007/S002220100184MaRDI QIDQ1608559zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Goresky, William Pardon

Publication date 8 August 2002

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9804117

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classes of automorphic vector bundlesHermitian locally symmetric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Automorphic functions in symmetric domains (32N15) Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Let X be a Hermitian locally symmetric space. We prove that every Chern class of X has a canonical lift to the cohomology of the Baily- Borel-Satake compactification X* of X and that the resulting Chern numbers satisfy the Hirzebruch proportionality formula with respect to the compact dual X^ of X. The same result holds for any automorphic vector bundle over X in place of the tangent bundle. As a consequence there is a surjection of the subalgebra of H*(X*) generated by these lifted classes onto H*(X^). The method of proof is to construct fiberwise flat connections on these bundles near the singular strata of X*, where one then finds de Rham representatives of the Chern classes which are pulled back from the strata.

Review text

The authors present a fair amount of technical material, providing background information from topology on stratified spaces, on differential topology and differential geometry, on vector bundles, symmetric spaces and algebraic groups. The Baily-Borel Satake compactification, parabolically induced connections and patched connections are studied. For a Hermitian locally symmetric space \(X\) and its Baily-Borel compactification \(\overline X\), the formula \[ \overline c^*(\overline X)\cap [\overline X]= c_*(1_X)\in H(\overline X;\mathbb{Z}) \] is established, for \(\overline c^*(\overline X)\in H(\overline X;\mathbb{C})\) the (cohomology) Chern class of \(\overline X\), \(\overline c^*(\overline X)\cap [\overline X]\) its homology image, and \(c_*(1_X)\) the MacPherson Chern class of \(1_X\), \(1\) on \(X\) and \(0\) on \(\overline X- X\). Finally, the cohomology of \(\overline X\) is related to the cohomology of \(\check D\), the compact dual of the symmetric space \(D= G/K=\) irreducible factor of suitable type of a standard Hermitian locally symmetric space \(X\). There is a surjection \(h: H^*_{\text{Chern}}(\overline X; \mathbb{C})\to H^*(\check D;\mathbb{C})\). This is explained in the last section.

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