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The Weyl tube theorem for K\"ahler manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-06-03 v3

Abstract

As sharpened in terms of Alesker's theory of valuations on manifolds, a classic theorem of Weyl asserts that the coefficients of the tube polynomial of an isometrically embedded riemannian manifold MRnM \hookrightarrow \mathbb R^n constitute a canonical finite dimensional subalgebra LK(M)\mathcal {L K}(M) of the algebra V(M)\mathcal{V} (M) of all smooth valuations on MM, isomorphic to the algebra of valuations on Euclidean space that are invariant under rigid motions. We construct an analogous, larger, canonical subalgebra KLK(M)V(M)\mathcal{KLK}(M)\subset \mathcal{V}(M) for K\"ahler manifolds MM: i) if dimM=n\dim M = n , then KLK(M)ValU(n)\mathcal{KLK}(M)\simeq \mathrm{Val}^{\mathrm{U}(n)}, the algebra of valuations on Cn\mathbb{C}^n invariant under the holomorphic isometry group, and ii) if MM~M\hookrightarrow \tilde M is a K\"ahler embedding, then the restriction map V(M~)V(M)\mathcal{V}(\tilde M) \to \mathcal{V}(M) induces a surjection KLK(M~)KLK(M)\mathcal{KLK}(\tilde M)\to \mathcal{KLK}(M). This answers a question posed by Alesker in 2010 and gives a structural explanation for some previously known, but mysterious phenomena in hermitian integral geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2209.05806,
  title  = {The Weyl tube theorem for K\"ahler manifolds},
  author = {Andreas Bernig and Joseph H. G. Fu and Gil Solanes and Thomas Wannerer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.05806},
  year   = {2025}
}

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62 pages; minor changes