Vanishing and estimation results for Hodge numbers (Q2054208)

In this paper the authors apply Bochner's technique to prove several new vanishing and estimation results for Hodge numbers of compact Kähler manifolds. These allow the authors to obtain some structural results too, including an analogue of the Tachibana theorem. More precisely, let \((M,J,g)\) denote a real oriented almost complex Riemannian manifold of real dimension \(2n\). It is well known that the full curvature tensor \(R_g\) of \((M,J,g)\) regarded as a section of \(\mathrm{End}(\wedge^2TM)\cong\mathrm{End}({\mathfrak s}{\mathfrak o}(2n))\) (also called the curvature operator) admits an irreducible decomposition according to \(\mathrm{U}(n)\subset\mathrm{SO}(2n)\). In the case when \((M,J,g)\) is integrable to a Kähler manifold of complex dimension \(n\) then the part of the curvature corresponding to \({\mathfrak u}(n)^\perp\subset{\mathfrak s}{\mathfrak o}(2n)\) vanishes as well as it maps \({\mathfrak u}(n)\) into itself, i.e., one in fact is left with the reduced \textit{Kähler curvature operator} in \(\mathrm{End}({\mathfrak u}(n))\) alone with corresponding ordered real eigenvalues \(\lambda_1\leqq\dots\leqq\lambda_{n^2}\). In the case when \(M\) is compact imposing positivity conditions on appropriate linear combinations of these ordered eigenvalues the authors obtain several interesting vanishing results and estimates for the Hodge numbers as well as descriptions of the rational cohomology ring of the corresponding Kähler manifold (see Theorems A,B,C,D in the article); moreover a Kähler-Einstein analogue of Tachibana's theorem on real Einstein manifolds (see Theorem E in the article) is also exhibited.