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Existence of approximate Hermitian-Einstein structures on semi-stable bundles

Differential Geometry 2013-08-27 v3

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate canonical metrics on a semi-stable vector bundle E over a compact Kahler manifold X. It is shown that, if E is semi-stable, then Donaldson's functional is bounded from below. This implies that E admits an approximate Hermitian-Einstein structure, generalizing a classic result of Kobayashi for projective manifolds to the Kahler case. As an application some basic properties of semi-stable vector bundles over compact Kahler manifolds are established, such as the fact that semi-stability is preserved under tensor product and certain exterior and symmetric products.

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@article{arxiv.1012.1888,
  title  = {Existence of approximate Hermitian-Einstein structures on semi-stable bundles},
  author = {Adam Jacob},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1888},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Correction of a few typos, main result unchanged. Final version to be published in Asian Journal of Mathematics. 29 pages

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