Symmetric differentials and the fundamental group

DOI10.1215/00127094-2381442zbMATH Open1296.32003arXiv1204.6443OpenAlexW2077160579WikidataQ125741250 ScholiaQ125741250MaRDI QIDQ2016423FDOQ2016423

Authors: Yohan Brunebarbe, Bruno Klingler, Burt Totaro 

Publication date: 20 June 2014

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Esnault asked whether every smooth complex projective variety with infinite fundamental group has a nonzero symmetric differential (a section of a symmetric power of the cotangent bundle). In a sense, this would mean that every variety with infinite fundamental group has some nonpositive curvature. We show that the answer to Esnault's question is positive when the fundamental group has a finite-dimensional representation over some field with infinite image. This applies to all known varieties with infinite fundamental group. Along the way, we produce many symmetric differentials on the base of a variation of Hodge structures. One interest of these results is that symmetric differentials give information in the direction of Kobayashi hyperbolicity. For example, they limit how many rational curves the variety can contain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6443

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zbMATH Keywords

variation of Hodge structuressymmetric differentialsrepresentation of the fundamental groupcompact Kähler manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Compact Kähler manifolds: generalizations, classification (32J27) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07)

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