scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1194470

Publication date 25 August 1998

This monograph is a systematic and reasonably self-contained presentation of selected results on indices and residues of vector fields and foliations. It mainly concentrates on those methods and results which the author has worked on. The book consists of six chapters. Chapter I collects what is needed for later use about holomorphic functions of several complex variables, the ring of germs of holomorphic functions, complex manifolds and analytic varieties, germs of varieties, vector bundles, vector fields, complex valued differential forms, Frobenius theorem and non-singular foliations. Chapter II gathers together further tools needed for the study of residues such as the Čech-de Rham cohomology, duality theorems, the Thom isomorphism, the Chern-Weil approach to characteristic classes, connections, the Grothendieck residues, divisors, coherent sheaves, complete intersections and local complete intersections. In Chapter III (Poincaré-Hopf indices and the Baum-Bott residues of holomorphic vector fields) the author first treats the index and the Euler residue of a section of an oriented real vector bundle over a connected oriented \(C^\infty\) manifold, including the Poincaré-Hopf theorem as a special case. Then he explains the general principle of localization of characteristic classes for \(C^\infty\) complex vector bundles over oriented \(C^\infty\) manifolds. As an application, among other things, the localization of the top-dimensional Chern class of a complex vector bundle by a section is expressed as the Thom class of a suitable vector bundle. For holomorphic vector fields and one-dimensional foliations on a complex manifold, theorems on the Baum-Bott residues are proved; they serve as a model case in the study of other residues in later chapters. In Chapter IV (Indices and residues of vector fields on singular varieties), the author considers vector fields and one-dimensional foliations on singular varieties. He generalizes the index defined by \textit{M.-H. Schwartz} [Champs radiaux sur une stratification analytique. Travaux en Cours, 39 (1991; Zbl 0727.57026)], and introduces the ``{Schwartz index } at an isolated singular point of a vector field on a singular variety \(V\). If \(V\) is a compact complex analytic variety with isolated singularities and \(v\) is a \(C^\infty\) vector field on the regular part of \(V\), then the sum of the Schwartz indices at the (isolated) singular points of \(v\) is proved to be the Euler-Poincaré characteristic of \(V\). The author also discusses the ``{GSV (\(=\) Gómez-Mont, Seade, Verjovsky) index } and its relation to the Schwartz index. Further, he explains how to localize characteristic numbers of vector bundles and virtual bundles on singular varieties; global residue formulae are stated in case of compact varieties. The rest of Chapter IV consists of the following sections: 3. Virtual indices and applications, 4. Residues of holomorphic vector fields on singular varieties, 5. Residues for the ambient tangent bundle, 6. Residues for the normal bundle, 8. Grothendieck residues relative to subvarieties and examples. In Chapter V (Singular foliations on complex surfaces), the indices and residues discussed before are treated in the special case of foliations on non-singular complex surfaces (\(=\) complex manifolds of dimension \(2\)). In Chapter VI (Singular holomorphic foliations), the author discusses the residue problem for general singular foliations on complex manifolds and singular varieties. In spite of several misprints (all of them unimportant), the book is well written. The general theory is often illustrated by interesting examples; there are also several exercises. An additional positive feature is that even in the preparatory Chapters I and II (which could serve as an introduction to complex analytic geometry) most results are presented with proofs.

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