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The Chevalley--Weil formula for finite group actions on higher dimensional compact complex manifolds

Algebraic Geometry 2025-10-14 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Building on the Atiyah--Singer holomorphic Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, we define ramification modules associated to the fixed loci of a finite group acting on a compact complex manifold. This allows us to generalize the Chevalley--Weil formula for compact Riemann surfaces to higher dimensions. More precisely, let GG be a finite group acting on a compact complex manifold XX, and let E\mathcal{E} be a GG-equivariant locally free sheaf on XX. Then, in the representation ring R(G)QR(G)_\mathbb{Q}, we have χG(X,E):=i=0dimX(1)i[Hi(X,E)]=1Gχ(X,E)[C[G]]+ZΓ(E)Z \chi_G(X, \mathcal{E}):=\sum_{i=0}^{\dim X}(-1)^i[H^i(X, \mathcal{E})]=\frac{1}{|G|}\chi(X,\mathcal{E})[\mathbb{C}[G]] + \sum_Z\Gamma(\mathcal{E})_Z where ZZ runs over all connected components of the fixed-point sets XgX^g for gGg\in G, and each Γ(E)ZR(X)Q\Gamma(\mathcal{E})_Z\in R(X)_\mathbb{Q}, called the \emph{ramification module} at ZZ, depends only on the restriction EZ\mathcal{E}|_Z and the normal bundle NZ/XN_{Z/X} as GZG_Z-equivariant bundles. We illustrate the computation of Γ(E)Z\Gamma(\mathcal{E})_Z in several special cases and provide a detailed example for faithful actions of G(Z/2Z)nG\cong(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^n on a compact complex surface.

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@article{arxiv.2510.10430,
  title  = {The Chevalley--Weil formula for finite group actions on higher dimensional compact complex manifolds},
  author = {Wenfei Liu and Renjie Lyu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.10430},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages