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Homological methods in certain Picard group computations

Complex Variables 2023-09-13 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a connected complex semisimple Lie group, Γ\Gamma be a cocompact, irreducible and torsionless lattice in GG and KK be a maximal compact subgroup of GG. Assume Γ\Gamma acts by left multiplication and KK acts by right multiplication on GG. Let MΓ=Γ\GM_{\Gamma}= \Gamma\backslash G, X=G/KX=G/K and XΓ=Γ\XX_{\Gamma}=\Gamma\backslash X. In this article we prove that for any n0n\geq0, the composition Hn(XΓ,C)Hn(MΓ,C)Hn(MΓ,OMΓ)H^{n}(X_{\Gamma},\mathbb{C})\rightarrow H^{n}(M_{\Gamma},\mathbb{C})\rightarrow H^{n}(M_{\Gamma},\mathcal{O}_{M_{\Gamma}}) is an isomorphism. As an application when GG is simply connected, we compute the Picard group of MΓM_{\Gamma} for the cases rank(GG) =1,2=1,2. More precisely we show that if rank(GG) =1=1, Pic(MΓ)=(Cr/Zr)APic(M_{\Gamma})=(\mathbb{C}^{r}/\mathbb{Z}^{r})\oplus A and if rank(GG) =2=2, then Pic(MΓ)APic(M_{\Gamma})\cong A via the first Chern class map, where AA is the torsion subgroup of H2(MΓ,Z)H^{2}(M_{\Gamma},\mathbb{Z}) and rr is the rank of Γ/[Γ,Γ]\Gamma/[\Gamma,\Gamma].

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@article{arxiv.2203.14105,
  title  = {Homological methods in certain Picard group computations},
  author = {Pritthijit Biswas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14105},
  year   = {2023}
}

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