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Holomorphic vector fields and rationality

Algebraic Geometry 2020-03-03 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that a nonsingular complex projective variety admitting a holomorphic vector field with nonempty isolated zeroes, is rational using a key technique by Harvey-Lawson on finite volume flows. This statement was conjectured by J. Carrell. By the same technique, we obtain a uniform upper bound of Betti numbers of nonsingular complex projective variety admitting a holomorphic vector field with exact one zero point. Such an upper bound depends only on the dimension of the variety, which is a stronger version of a result of Akyildiz and Carrell.

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@article{arxiv.1911.04717,
  title  = {Holomorphic vector fields and rationality},
  author = {Wenchuan Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04717},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages. The proof of the main result is modified and upper bound of Betti numbers are given. Comments are welcome!

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