Arakelov inequalities and the uniformization of certain rigid Shimura varieties

DOI10.4310/JDG/1191860396MaRDI QIDQ2466965zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eckart Viehweg, Kang Zuo

Publication date 17 January 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503339, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1191860396

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) Algebraic moduli of abelian varieties, classification (14K10)

Abstract: Let Y be a non-singular projective manifold with an ample canonical sheaf, and let V be a rational variation of Hodge structures of weight one on Y with Higgs bundle E(1,0) + E(0,1), coming from a family of Abelian varieties. If Y is a curve the Arakelov inequality says that the difference of the slope of E(1,0) and the one of E(0,1) is is smaller than or equal to the degree of the canonical sheaf. We prove a similar inequality in the higher dimensional case. If the latter is an equality, as well as the Bogomolov inequality for E(1,0) or for E(0,1), one hopes that Y is a Shimura variety, and V a uniformizing variation of Hodge structures. This is verified, in case the universal covering of Y does not contain factors of rank >1. Part of the results extend to variations of Hodge structures over quasi-projective manifolds. The revised version corrects several mistakes and ambiguities, pointed out by the referee. Following suggestions of the referee the presentation of the results was improved.

Review text

Let \(Y\) be a complex projective manifold, \(S\) be a reduced normal crossing divisor in \(Y\) such that \(\omega_Y(S)\) is nef and ample with respect to \(U\), \(U=Y\setminus S\) and \(f:V\rightarrow U\) be a smooth family of polarized \(g\)-dimensional abelian varieties such that the local monodromy of \(R^1f_*\mathbb C_V\) around the components of \(S\) is unipotent. Let \(\mathbb V\) be a sub-variation of Hodge structures in \(R^1f_*\mathbb C_V\) without unitary direct factor and \((E=E^{1,0}\oplus E^{(0,1)}, \theta)\) be the associated Higgs bundle. In the paper under review, the authors establish the inequality \(\mu(\mathbb E^{1,0})-\mu(\mathbb E^{0,1})\leq\mu(\Omega_Y^1(\log S))\), where the slope function is defined as the degree with respect to \(\omega_Y(S)\) devided by the rank. This is a generalization to higher dimension case of a so-called Arakelov inequality due to \textit{G. Faltings} [Invent. Math. 73, 337--347 (1983; Zbl 0588.14025)] for a smooth projective curve. If the equality is attained, the authors show that both vector bundle \(E^{1,0}\) and \(E^{0,1}\) are semi-stable. The main tools used by the authors are Simpson's correspondence between Higgs bundles and local systems and Yau's uniformization theorem based on the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics. Denote by \(\varphi:U\rightarrow\mathcal A_g\) the morphism from \(U\) to the moduli stack of polarized \(g\)-dimensional abelian varieties induced by \(f\), assumed to be generically finite. Suppose in addition that the equality \(\mu(\mathbb E^{1,0})-\mu(\mathbb E^{0,1})=\mu(\Omega_Y^1(\log S))\) holds. The authors prove that, if the discriminant of \(\mathbb V\) with respect to \(\omega_Y(S)\) is zero, or if \(\Omega_Y^1(\log S)\) is a direct sum of line bundles, then \(U\) is a rigid Shimura subvariety of \(\mathcal A_g\). This criterion generalizes the authors' several previous results such as [J. Differ. Geom. 66, No. 2, 233--287 (2004; Zbl 1078.11043)] and [J. Algebr. Geom. 14, No. 3, 481--528 (2005; Zbl 1086.14029)]

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