Local Structure of Closed Symmetric 2-Differentials

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Abstract: In the authors's previous work on symmetric differentials and their connection to the topological properties of the ambient manifold, a class of symmetric differentials was introduced: closed symmetric differentials ([BoDeO11] and [BoDeO13]). In this article we give a description of the local structure of closed symmetric 2-differentials on complex surfaces, with an emphasis towards the local decompositions as products of 1-differentials. We show that a closed symmetric 2-differential w of rank 2 (i.e. defines two distinct foliations at the general point) has a subvariety BwsubsetX outside of which w is locally the product of closed holomorphic 1-differentials. The main result, theorem 2.6, gives a complete description of a (locally split) closed symmetric 2-differential in a neighborhood of a general point of Bw. A key feature of theorem 2.6 is that closed symmetric 2-differentials still have a decomposition as a product of 2 closed 1-differentials (in a generalized sense) even at the points of Bw. The (possibly multi-valued) closed 1-differentials can have essential singularities along Bw, but one still has a control on these essential singularities. The essential singularities come from exponentials of meromorphic functions acquiring poles along the irreducible components of Bw of order bounded by the order of contact of the 2 foliations defined by the symmetric 2-differential along that irreducible component.









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