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Numerical and kodaira dimensions of cotangent bundles

Algebraic Geometry 2023-03-07 v2 Complex Variables

Abstract

We conjecture the equality of the numerical and Kodaira dimensions ν1(X)\nu_1^*(X) and κ1(X)\kappa_1^*(X) for the cotangent bundle of compact K\"ahler manifolds XX, generalising the classical case of the canonical bundle. We show or reduce it to the classical case of the canonical bundle for some peculiar manifolds: among them, the rationally connected ones, or resolutions of varieties with klt singularities and trivial first Chern class, in which case we show that ν1(X)=κ1(X)=q(X)dim(X)\nu_1^*(X)=\kappa_1^*(X)=q'(X)-dim(X), where q(X)q'(X) is the maximal irregularity of a finite \'etale cover of XX. The proof rests on the Beauville-Bogomolov decomposition, and a direct computation for smooth models of quotients A/GA/G of complex tori by finite groups. We conjecture that these equalities hold true, much more generally, when XX is `special'. The invariant κ1\kappa_1^* was already introduced and studied by Fumio Sakai in [43], the particular case of the preceding conjecture when κ1(X)=dim(X)\kappa_1^*(X)=-dim(X) was introduced and studied in [29].

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@article{arxiv.2203.03273,
  title  = {Numerical and kodaira dimensions of cotangent bundles},
  author = {Frederic Bruno Campana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03273},
  year   = {2023}
}