Area-minimizing Riemann surfaces on the Iwasawa manifold

DOI10.1007/BF02921935MaRDI QIDQ1589345zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Bassanelli

Publication date 11 December 2000

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02921935

zbMATH Keywords

area-minimizing holomorphic cyclebalanced manifoldsintegral currentIwasawa manifoldKähler manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration on analytic sets and spaces, currents (32C30) Homogeneous complex manifolds (32M10) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Review text

The complex Iwasawa manifold \(I_{3}\) is the quotient of the nilpotent group \(G\) of upper triangular unipotent complex matrices by the cocompact lattice \(G\cap GL(3,\mathbb Z[i])\). Since \(G\) is non-abelian, \(I_{3}\) is not Kähler, but it is balanced in the sense that \(d^{2}\omega=0\) for the fundamental form \(\omega\) of the natural Hermitian metric on \(I_{3}\). The author is interested in area-minimizing elements of homology classes that contain holomorphic cycles. Let \(\|T\|\) denote the mass of a normal current with respect to the above metric and for \(\alpha\in H_{2p}(I_{3},\mathbb Z)\subset H_{2p}(I_{3},\mathbb R)\) define \(\|\alpha\|\) resp. \(\|\alpha\|_{\mathbb Z}\) to be the infimum of \(\|T\|\) with \(T\in \alpha\) resp. \(T\in\alpha\) and \(T\) integral. The mass \(\|T\|\) coincides with the area of \(T\) if \(T\) is an oriented submanifold of \(I_{3}\). The main result is as follows: If \(\alpha\in H_{2p}(I_{3},\mathbb Z)\) contains a positive normal \((p,p)\)-current and \(\|\alpha\|_{\mathbb Z}=\|\alpha\|\), then there exists an effective holomorphic cycle \(S\in\alpha\) such that \(\|S\|=\|\alpha\|\). The special structure of \(I_{3}\) as a homogeneous holomorphic principal bundle over its two-dimensional Albanese torus \(\mathbb C^{2}/(\mathbb Z[i]\times\mathbb Z[i])\) with fibre a (\(0\)-homologous) elliptic curve leads to some other interesting phenomena, e.g. there is a complex curve \(C\in\alpha\in H_{2}(I_{3},\mathbb Z)\) with area (\(C\))\(\leq \|\widetilde{C}\|\) for every holomorphic cycle \(\widetilde{C}\) homologous to \(C\), but area(\(C\))\(>\|\alpha\|_{\mathbb Z}>\|\alpha\|\).

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