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On real bisectional curvature for Hermitian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2023-03-31 v2 Complex Variables

Abstract

Motivated by the recent work of Wu and Yau on the ampleness of canonical line bundle for compact K\"ahler manifolds with negative holomorphic sectional curvature, we introduce a new curvature notion called real bisectional curvature\textbf{real bisectional curvature} for Hermitian manifolds. When the metric is K\"ahler, this is just the holomorphic sectional curvature HH, and when the metric is non-K\"ahler, it is slightly stronger than HH. We classify compact Hermitian manifolds with constant non-zero real bisectional curvature, and also slightly extend Wu-Yau's theorem to the Hermitian case. The underlying reason for the extension is that the Schwarz lemma of Wu-Yau works the same when the target metric is only Hermitian but has nonpositive real bisectional curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1610.07165,
  title  = {On real bisectional curvature for Hermitian manifolds},
  author = {Xiaokui Yang and Fangyang Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07165},
  year   = {2023}
}