Entropy and collapsing of compact complex surfaces

DOI10.1112/S002461150401487XMaRDI QIDQ4664128zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel P. Paternain, Jimmy Petean

Publication date 5 April 2005

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304388

zbMATH Keywords

\(F\)-structuresentropy minimizing metricKähler surfacestopological entropy of geodesic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: We study the problem of existence of F-structures on compact complex surfaces, giving a complete classification modulo the gap in the classification of surfaces of class VII. We then use these results to study the minimal entropy problem for compact complex surfaces. For instance we prove that compact Kahler surfaces of Kodaira number different from 2 have minimal entropy 0, and such a surface admits a metric with entropy 0 if and only if it is the complex projective space, a ruled surface of genus 0 or 1, a complex torus or a hyperelliptic surface. The key result we use to prove this, is a new topological obstruction to the existence of metrics with vanishing topological entropy. Finally we show that these results fit perfectly into Wall's study of geometric structures on compact complex surfaces.

Review text

An \(F\)-structure on a manifold \(M\) is a family of local torus actions on \(M\) satisfying certain consistency conditions on overlaps. An \(F\)-structure is said to be polarized if all isotropy groups of the local torus actions are of finite order. In this case it is known that the existence of \(F\)-structures is related to the possiblity of collapsing certain geometric invariants [\textit{J. Cheeger, M. Gromov}, J. Differ. Geom. 23, 309--346 (1986; Zbl 0606.53028)]. One of the problems that the authors analysed is the existence of \(F\)-structures on compact non Kähler surfaces, which was not known before. This paper also studies the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of metrics on closed manifolds and gives complete solutions for the minimal entropy problem for the so called surfaces of generic type, i.e., compact complex surfaces of Kodaira dimension 2, in terms of 4-dimensional geometric structures. Surfaces with Kodaira dimension less than one are also analysed.

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