Rationality of secondary classes

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214458328MaRDI QIDQ1126437zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander G. Reznikov

Publication date 8 December 1996

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9407007

zbMATH Keywords

Borel hyperbolic volumeBorel regulationCheeger-Chern-Simons classChern-Simons classharmonic mapshyperbolic \(n\)-manifoldsecond Chern classSeifert fibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sheaves and cohomology of sections of holomorphic vector bundles, general results (32L10) Hyperbolic and Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds (32Q45) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We prove the Bloch conjecture : $$ is torsion for holomorphic rank two vector bundles $E$ with an integrable connection over a complex projective variety $X$. We prove also the rationality of the Chern-Simons invariant of compact arithmetic hyperbolic three-manifolds. We give a sharp higher-dimensional Milnor inequality for the volume regulator of all representations to $PSO(1,n)$ of fundamental groups of compact $n$-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds, announced in our earlier paper.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a smooth complex projective variety, \(\rho\) a representation of \(\pi_1(X)\) in \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})\) and \(E_\rho\) the corresponding algebraic vector bundle of rank 2 over \(X\). The author proves that the second Chern class \(c_2(E_\rho)\) of \(E_\rho\) in the Deligne cohomology group \(H^4_D(X,\mathbb{Z}(2))\) is a torsion class. He also proves that, if Vol( ) denotes the Borel hyperbolic volume and \(M\) is a compact hyperbolic \(n\)-manifold, then any representation \(\mu\) of \(\pi_1(M)\) in \(\text{PSO}(1,n)\) satisfies the higher Milnor inequality \(\text{Vol}(\mu)\leq \text{Vol}(M)\). The same argument shows that, if \(M^3\) is a Seifert fibration and \(\rho\) a representation of \(\pi_1(X)\) in \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})\), then the Chern-Simons class \(\text{Ch }S(\rho)\) of \(\rho\) is rational. The author shows finally that \(\text{Ch }S(\rho)\) is also rational for \(M\) a compact arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold and \(\rho\) the defining representation of \(\pi_1(M)\) in \(\text{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})\). The proofs involve rational algebraic \(K\)-theory, the homological finiteness of \(S\)-arithmetic groups, the existence theory of twisted harmonic maps and the Sin-Sampson-Carlson-Toledo rigidity theory.

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