Integral inequalities for holomorphic maps and applications
Yashan Zhang

TL;DR
This paper establishes integral inequalities for holomorphic maps between complex manifolds and uses them to prove rigidity, degeneracy, and singularity results in complex geometry, especially related to the Kähler-Ricci flow.
Contribution
It introduces new integral inequalities for holomorphic maps and applies them to derive geometric rigidity, degeneracy theorems, and analyze the Kähler-Ricci flow without curvature sign assumptions.
Findings
Rigidity and degeneracy theorems for holomorphic maps.
Characterization of equality cases in certain settings.
Insights into the infinite-time singularity types of Kähler-Ricci flow.
Abstract
We derive some integral inequalities for holomorphic maps between complex manifolds. As applications, some rigidity and degeneracy theorems for holomorphic maps without assuming any pointwise curvature signs for both the domain and target manifolds are proved, in which key roles are played by total integration of the function of the first eigenvalue of second Ricci curvature and an almost nonpositivity notion for holomorphic sectional curvature introduced in our previous work. We also apply these integral inequalities to discuss the infinite-time singularity type of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow. The equality case is characterized for some special settings.
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Integral inequalities for holomorphic maps and applications
Yashan Zhang
School of Mathematics and Hunan Province Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing and Applied Mathematics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Abstract.
We derive some integral inequalities for holomorphic maps between complex manifolds. As applications, some rigidity and degeneracy theorems for holomorphic maps without assuming any pointwise curvature signs for both the domain and target manifolds are proved, in which key roles are played by total integration of the function of the first eigenvalue of second Ricci curvature and an almost nonpositivity notion for holomorphic sectional curvature introduced in our previous work. We also apply these integral inequalities to discuss the infinite-time singularity type of the Kähler-Ricci flow. The equality case is characterized for some special settings.
The author is partially supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 531118010468) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12001179)
1. Introduction
1.1. Background
A general principle in complex geometry states that negative curvature restricts behaviors of holomorphic maps between complex manifolds, see e.g. [9, page 15]. The most classic result along this line should be Schwarz-Pick-Ahlfors Lemma: a non-constant holomorphic map from the unit disc (equipped with the Poincaré metric) to a smooth Riemann surface with negative curvature decreases distances (up to multiplying a constant factor depending only on the bounds of curvatures). Important generalizations of Schwarz-Pick-Ahlfors Lemma to higher dimensions were developed, including Chern [2], Lu [10], Yau [24], Royden [12], etc.. Here, we in particular recall Yau’s general Schwarz Lemma [24] that a holomorphic map from a complete Kähler manifold of Ricci curvature bounded from below to a Hermitian manifold of holomorphic bisectional curvature bounded from above by a negative constant decreases distances (up to multiplying a constant factor depending only on the bounds of curvatures). Royden [12] proved that similar result holds if the target space is a Kähler manifold of holomorphic sectional curvature bounded from above by a negative constant. In particular, their results imply a fundamental rigidity theorem that a holomorphic map from a compact Kähler manifold of positive Ricci curvature to a Hermitian (resp. Kähler) manifold of nonpositive holomorphic bisectional (resp. sectional) curvature must be constant. Excellent expositions on differential geometric developments of Schwarz-type Lemma can be found in [9]. More recently, there are significant progresses on this topic, which relaxed either the curvature assumptions or Kählerian condition, see [11, 14, 21, 22, 23] and references therein for more details.
1.2. Motivations
Let’s focus on the rigidity theorems. The general philosophy behind rigidity theorems for holomorphic maps is that a holomorphic map from a positively curved space to a negatively curved space should be constant. Our study here is mainly motivated by the following natural question: can we make this philosophy more effective? To be more precise, let’s look at, for example, the aforementioned fundamental rigidity theorem of Yau and Royden: a holomorphic map from a compact Kähler manifold of positive (resp. nonnegative) Ricci curvature to a compact Kähler manifold of nonpositive (resp. negative) holomorphic sectional curvature must be constant. For convenience, here we have assumed that both the domain and target manifolds are compact Kähler. Consequently, given a non-constant holomorphic map between two compact Kähler manifolds,
- (I)
if the Ricci curvature of is positive, then the supremum of holomorphic sectional curvature, denoted by (see Notation 2.2), must be positive;
- (II)
if the holomorphic sectional curvature of is negative, then the infimum of Ricci curvature of , denoted by (see Notation 2.1), must be negative.
Then, regarding the effectiveness, we may naturally ask (in the above setting):
- (A)
in the above case (I), can we have an effective positive lower bound for ?
- (B)
in the above case (II), can we have an effective negative upper bound for ?
The effectiveness results, if can be obtained, will play crucial roles in several problems, including
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weakening/sharpening the curvature conditions in the rigidity theorems for holomorphic maps;
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dealing with a family of Kähler/Hermitian metrics on either the domain or target manifolds, which naturally arises in the study of complex geometric flows including the Kähler-Ricci flow and the Chern-Ricci flow.
Firstly, we observe that the case (B) readily follows from Yau’s general Schwarz Lemma. Precisely, in the above case (II) there holds ()
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on and hence
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giving an effective negative upper bound for . One may interpret (1.2) as an integral version of (1.1).
In the following, let’s focus on the case (A). Under the curvature conditions in case (I), we don’t have the “reverse” Schwarz Lemma, (say, ), leaving the (integral) inequality (1.2) unclear. Noting that (1.2) should be much weaker than the (“reverse”) Schwarz Lemma, to solve the above case (A) we are naturally leaded to prove the inequality (1.2) directly. In this paper, we shall prove a general integral inequality for non-constant holomorphic maps in a general setting without assuming any curvature conditions (Theorem 1.1), which in particular implies the desired inequality (1.2) in its setting (up to the constant factor ), and hence solves the above case (A) completely. We should mention that for the special case , an inequality similar to (1.2) was previously proved in Tosatti-Y.G.Zhang [18, Section 4, Remark 4.1] by a different method (see subsection 1.4 for some more discussions).
1.3. Main results: integral inequalities for holomorphic maps
In this paper, we shall present several integral inequalities for non-constant or non-degenerate holomorphic maps between two complex manifolds without assuming any curvature condition, in which we assume the domain manifold is compact. Precisely, we shall prove the followings:
Theorem 1.1**.**
Let and be two Hermitian manifolds and be -dimensional and compact. Then there exists a smooth real function on such that for any non-constant holomorphic map there holds
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*where
(1) is the function of the first eigenvalue of the second Ricci curvature of with respect to , and
(2) is a continuous real function on such that for , is the maximal value of holomorphic bisectional curvature of at when is not Kählerian, and is the “modified” maximal value of holomorphic sectional curvature of at when is Kählerian (see Notation 2.2 for precise definition).*
If furthermore is Gauduchon, the in (1.3) can be chosen to be any constant function.
Theorem 1.2**.**
Let and be two -dimensional Hermitian manifolds and compact. Then there exists a smooth real function on such that for any non-degenerate holomorphic map there holds
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where is the Chern scalar curvature of and is the Chern Ricci curvature of .
If furthermore is Gauduchon, the in (1.4) can be chosen to be any constant function.
Remark 1.3**.**
These integral inequalities may be regarded as effective obstructions for a holomorphic map being constant or totally degenerate, and they make the aforementioned philosophy in Subsection 1.2 more effective. In particular, inequality (1.3) implies a complete answer to the case (A) in Subsection 1.2, i.e. (1.2) holds in its setting (also see Subsection 4.4 for more general results).
1.4. The case in Theorem 1.1
Let’s take a closer look at Theorem 1.1 with the domain space .
Firstly, we recall that for the one-dimensional case, the following result was proved in [18, Section 4, page 2938-2940].
Proposition 1.4**.**
[18]** Let be a compact Kähler manifold and a non-constant holomorphic map. Then there holds
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If furthermore is a holomorphic embedding, then
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By arguments in [18], (1.6), which serves as an intuition for (1.5), was a consequence of Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, and (1.5) was proved by using Schwarz Lemma calculation and -regularity arguments. In particular, the lower bound in the latter inequality (1.6) is automatically of geometric interpretation (i.e. Euler characteristic of ), while the lower bound in the inequality (1.5), coming from an analytic argument, seems not of clear geometric nature. It is then very natural to ask: can we have a “geometric” positive lower bound in (1.5), and can we improve the lower bound in (1.5) to ? Furthermore, does there exist higher dimensional analog of (1.5)?
Using a special case in Theorem 1.1, i.e. setting , we answer these questions as follows.
Proposition 1.5**.**
Let be a compact Kähler manifold and a non-constant holomorphic map. Then there holds
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Indeed, for with normalization , we know is the constant Gaussian curvature and hence by Gauss-Bonnet theorem,
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Then Proposition 1.5 follows immediately from Theorem 1.1.
Observe that the lower bound is somehow optimal, as can be seen by choosing and .
The above arguments can be easily generalized to the cace with domain , where and . Namely, we have
Proposition 1.6**.**
Let be a compact Kähler manifold and a non-constant holomorphic map. Then there holds
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1.5. Outline of applications
As described in Subsection 1.2, the effectiveness results Theorems 1.1 and 1.2 may have applications in several problems. Let’s outline some of these applications.
A classical differential geometric approach in proving rigidity theorem for holomorphic map (i.e. proving constancy of a holomorphic map) makes use of Chern-Lu formula, pointwise curvature signs and the maximum principle arguments. Roughly speaking, this approach makes use of pointwise curvature signs to destroy (pointwise) Schwarz-type Lemma and hence gets the constancy of holomorphic maps.
As applications of Theorem 1.1, we shall prove rigidity theorems under weaker curvature conditions; in particular, the curvatures are not necessarily pointwise signed. In fact, given Theorem 1.1, to prove constancy of holomorphic map, it suffices to destroy the integral inequality (1.3), which can be achieved by just assuming, for example, suitable signs for curvature in certain integral sense or “almost” sense. Therefore, we obtain new rigidity theorems for holomorphic maps without assuming any pointwise curvature signs for both the domain and target manifolds.
Similarly, Theorem 1.2 can be applied to prove degeneracy theorems for holomorphic maps without assuming any pointwise curvature signs for both the domain and target manifolds.
Moreover, our Theorem 1.1 implies a criterion for type IIb singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow, generalizing a result of Tosatti-Y.G. Zhang [18, Proposition 1.4].
Also, the equality case in Theorem 1.1 is characterized in some special settings.
The details of these applications will be given in Section 4.
1.6. Organization
In the next section, we will introduce some necessary notations and results in complex geometry. Then we prove our main results Theorems 1.1 and 1.2 in Section 3. Finally, in Section 4, we provide several applications, including several rigidity and degeneracy theorems for holomorphic maps, a criterion for type IIb singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow and characterization of equality case in some settings.
2. Preliminaries
2.1. Curvatures in complex geometry
Let be a Hermitian manifold of dimension , where is the Kähler form of a Hermitian metric . In a local holomorphic chart , we write
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Recall the curvature tensor of the Chern connection is given by
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Then the Chern Ricci curvature and Chern scalar curvature are given by
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and
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respectively. Note that .
Also recall that the second Ricci curvature is given by
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Notation 2.1** (Function of the first eigenvalue of the second Ricci curvature).**
Let be a Hermitian manifold of . Define to be the function of the first eigenvalue of the second Ricci curvature of with respect to , which is a continuous function on satisfying
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For convenience, we call the integration the total first eigenvalue of second Ricci curvature of .
Given and , the holomorphic bisectional curvature of at determined by is
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and the holomorphic sectional curvature of at in the direction is
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Notation 2.2** (Supremum of holomorphic curvature).**
Let be a Hermition manifold of and . We set
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and
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Then we define a continuous real function for as follows.
- (1)
when is not Kählerian, we define ;
- (2)
when is Kählerian, we define , where is a function with for and for .
Definition 2.3** (Compact Kähler manifold of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature [28]).**
Let be a compact Kähler manifold.
- (1)
Let be a Kähler class on . We define a number for in the following way:
is a Kähler metric in ,
where is the continuous function on with .
- (2)
We say is of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature if for any number , there exists a Kähler class on such that .
One may find more motivations and discussions about the above almost nonpositivity notion for holomorphic sectional curvature in [28]. Here we mention that it is not a pointwise notion, but a notion at the level of -classes, and the number , up to multiplying a constant factor depending only on dimension of manifold, turns out to be an upper bound for the nef threshold of [28, Proposition 1.9].
2.2. Royden’s trick
Let be a holomorphic map between two Hermitian manifolds and and . Given and holomorphic charts on centered at and on centered at . Write and , , in these local charts. Assuming that is Kähler, Royden [12, page 552] proved that at ,
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where is the function defined in Notation 2.2 (2).
2.3. Gauduchon metrics
Let be a compact complex manifold of . A Hermitian metric on is called Gauduchon if
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Obviously, for a Gauduchon metric and a smooth function on we have
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where is the complex Laplacian defined by . A classical result of Gauduchon [5] states that, for every Hermitian metric , there is a (unique up to scaling, when ) such that is Gauduchon.
2.4. Non-degenerate holomorphic maps
Let be a holomorphic map between two complex manifolds of the same dimension. If there exists some point such that the Jacobian of satisfies , then we say is non-degenerate; otherwise, we say is totally degenerate.
3. Proofs of integral inequalities
In this section we prove Theorems 1.1 and 1.2. Our proofs do not involve any maximum principle arguments, since the curvatures of both the domain and target spaces may not be signed in pointwise sense. Instead, we will make use of a perturbation method involving Lebegue’s Dominated Convergence Theorem.
Proof of Theorem 1.1.
We only consider the case that is a Kähler metric on , as the other case can be proved similarly.
Let be an arbitrary positive number, . Given an arbitrary , and holomorphic charts on centered at and on centered at . Write , , , and , , in these local charts. By direct computations and Chern-Lu formula [2, 10, 25] (also see [23, Lemma 4.1] for clearer and simpler discussions on Chern-Lu formula) we have
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By the definition of in Notation 2.1 and Royden’s trick, we get
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For the last two terms in (3.2),
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Set at at , which, when is non-constant, is a proper subvariety (may be empty) of . Now, as in [23, Lemma 4.2], we apply Kato inequality in (3) to conclude that, outside ,
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putting which into (3.2) gives, on ,
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Note that both sides of (3.4) are continuous functions on and is a proper subvariety, therefore, by continuity (3.4) in fact holds on the whole .
Next, we fix a such that is a Gauduchon metric on (see subsection 2.3).
Integrating (3.4) with respect to over gives
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Since is Gauduchon and is a smooth real function on , we have
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where is the complex Laplacian with respect to . Then we plug it into (3.5) to see that
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Moreover, we easily have a positive constant such that for any ,
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on , and as ,
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pointwise on and so pointwise almost everywhere on (note that is of zero measure with respect to ). Therefore, we can apply Lebegue’s Dominated Convergence Theorem to conclude that
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from which Theorem 1.1 follows. ∎
Next we prove Theorem 1.2.
Proof of Theorem 1.2.
The proof uses ideas similar to Theorem 1.1. Set (where we have fixed local holomorphic charts on and on and write and ). Let be an arbitrary positive constant. At any point with , i.e. , by computations in Chern [2] and Lu [10] we have
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where in the fourth equality we have used at whenever .
Set at , which, as is non-degenerate, is a proper subvariety (may be empty) of . Then, the above discussions mean that (3) holds on and by continuity we know it holds on the whole .
As before, we fix a such that is a Gauduchon metric on . Therefore,
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Now, we can use the same arguments as in Theorem 1.1 to complete the proof.
Theorem 1.2 is proved. ∎
4. Applications
This section contains several applications of our integral inequalities.
4.1. Rigidity theorems for holomorphic maps
We will apply Theorem 1.1 to obtain several rigidity theorems. For example, if we assume is a compact Kähler manifold of positive Ricci curvature (implying that ) and is a Kähler manifold of nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature (implying that on ), then we easily recover the aforementioned fundamental rigidity theorems of Yau [24] and Royden [12] from Theorem 1.1.
We may particularly mention that, in general, the function in Theorem 1.1 may has different signs at different points and so the second Ricci curvature may not be nonnegatively signed. Therefore, Theorem 1.1 seems very flexible in applications, and implies new rigidity theorems even in the case that the curvatures of both the domain and target manifolds are not assume to be signed in pointwise sense. Theorem 1.1 and the following applications indicate that the total first eigenvalue of second Ricci curvature should be essential in deriving rigidity theorems for holomorphic maps.
Corollary 4.1**.**
A holomorphic map from a compact Hermitian manifold of quasi-positive second Ricci curvature to a compact Kähler manifold of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature must be constant.
Here, has quasi-positive second Ricci curvature if and only if on and at some point in . Corollary 4.1 applies when then domain space is, e.g. a projective manifold of nef and big anti-canonical line bundle.
Proof.
Assume a contradiction that there is a non-constant holomorphic map between two compact complex manifolds, where admits a Hermitian metric of quasi-positive second Ricci curvature and is a compact Kähler manifold of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature . Fix such that is Gauduchon. Since is quasi-positive, we know
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Since is a compact Kähler manifold of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature, we fix a sequence of Kähler metrics , on such that . We may assume for every . Then on , and so
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Recall that being Gauduchon implies that the integration on the above right hand side depends only on the class of . Therefore,
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for sufficiently large , which contradicts Theorem 1.1.
Corollary 4.1 is proved. ∎
The same arguments prove the followings.
Corollary 4.2**.**
A holomorphic map from a compact Gauduchon manifold with positive total first eigenvalue of second Ricci curvature to a compact Kähler manifold of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature must be constant.
Corollary 4.3**.**
A holomorphic map from a compact Gauduchon manifold with zero total first eigenvalue of second Ricci curvature to a Kähler (resp. Hermitian) manifold of negative holomorphic sectional (resp. bisectional) curvature must be constant.
Remark 4.4**.**
(1) In Corollary 4.2 we do not assume any pointwise curvature signs for both the domain and target spaces.
(2) In Corollaries 4.1 and 4.2, the same conclusions hold if the target manifold is assumed to be a (not necessarily compact) Hermition manifold of nonpositive holomorphic bisectional curvature (or real bisectional curvature, a new curvature notion recently introduced in [23]).
(3) It seems that Corollaries 4.1 and 4.2 are new even if we assume the target space is a Kähler (resp. Hermitian) manifold of nonpositive holomorphic sectional (resp. bisectional) curvature.
(4) Corollary 4.2 is somehow optimal if we further assume the target compact Kähler manifold is of nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature. More precisely, for any compact Kähler manifold of nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature, there exist a compact Kähler manifold of zero total first eigenvalue of Ricci curvature and a non-constant holomorphic map . In fact, since by [24, 17] (also see [28] for a generalization to almost setting), a compact Kähler manifold of (almost) nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature has nef canonical line bundle, then by using the nef reduction we have a fibration with regular fiber , up to a finite unramified covering, a flat complex torus (see [7] for details). Then we may choose and the holomorphic embedding.
(5) A very special case of Corollary 4.2 is that a Kähler manifold of almost nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature contains no rational curves, which has been observed in our previous work [28, Theorem 1.10] by using a result of Tosatti-Y.G. Zhang [18] (also see subsection 1.4). Our argument for Corollary 4.2 here provides an alternative proof for it.
4.2. Degeneracy theorems for holomorphic maps
As another natural generalization of Schwarz-Pick-Ahlfors Lemma to higher dimensions, one may also compare the volume forms related by a holomorphic map. The most classical works include Chern [2], Lu [10] and Yau [24] etc.. In particular, Yau proved that a non-degenerate holomorphic map from a compact Kähler manifold of scalar curvature bounded from below by a negative number to a Hermitian manifold of Chern Ricci curvature bounded from above by a negative constant decreases volume forms (up to multiplying a constant factor depending only on the bounds of curvatures), assuming the domain and target manifolds are of the same dimension. Consequently, a holomorphic map from an -dimensional compact Kähler manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature to an -dimensional Hermitian manifold of Chern Ricci curvature bounded from above by a negative constant must be totally degenerate. More recent developments can be found in [14, 11] etc..
Here we would like to prove some degeneracy theorems using the integral inequality in Theorem 1.2. Given Theorem 1.2, to get degeneracy theorems, we just need to assume curvature conditions that will destroy (1.4). Again, noting that it is an integral inequality, the curvatures may be assumed to be signed only in certain integral or almost sense, not necessarily in pointwise sense.
Corollary 4.5**.**
A holomorphic map from an -dimensional compact Gauduchon manifold of zero total Chern scalar curvature to an -dimensional compact Kähler manifold of semiample canonical line bundle and positive Kodaira dimension must be totally degenerate.
Proof.
Assume a contradiction that there is a non-degenerate holomorphic map between two -dimensional compact complex manifolds, where admits a Gauduchon metric of zero total Chern scalar curvature, i.e.
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and is a compact Kähler manifold of semiample canonical line bundle and positive Kodaira dimension. Since is non-degenerate at some point , is biholomorphic for some open neighborhood of . Let be the semiample fibration induced by the pluricanonical linear system of , where the Kodaira dimension of equals to . Then we fix , where is a multiple of Fubini-Study metric on , and by Yau’s fundamental theorem [25] we fix a Kähler metric on such that . Since is semipositive on and, at a generic point, is positive in some directions, up to shrinking (and so ) we may assume has positive directions for every point in . Therefore,
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contradicting (1.4).
Corollary 4.5 is proved. ∎
Similar arguments can be used to prove
Corollary 4.6**.**
A holomorphic map from an -dimensional compact Gauduchon manifold of positive total Chern scalar curvature to an -dimensional compact Kähler manifold of nef canonical line bundle must be totally degenerate.
Remark 4.7**.**
We should point out that Corollary 4.6 is essentially not new. In fact, by a recent work of Yang [20, Theorem 4.1], a compact complex manifold admitting a Gauduchon metric of positive total Chern scalar curvature also admits a Hermitian metric of (pointwise) positive Chern scalar curvature. Therefore, using Yang’s result, Corollary 4.6 follows directly from the classical maximum principle arguments in [2, 10, 25].
Here, using the integral inequality (1.4), we shall provide an alternative proof for Corollary 4.6 without involving Yang’s result.
Proof.
Assume a contradiction that there is a non-degenerate holomorphic map between two -dimensional compact complex manifolds, where admits a Gauduchon metric of positive total Chern scalar curvature, i.e.
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and is a compact Kähler manifold of nef canonical line bundle. By the definition of nefness and Yau’s fundamental theorem [25] we may fix a sequence of Kähler metrics , on such that
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Then we easily see that
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for sufficiently large , contradicting (1.4).
Corollary 4.6 is proved. ∎
4.3. Infinite-time singularity types of the Kähler-Ricci flow
We would like to discuss how our integral inequality (1.3) relates to the study of infinite-time singularity types of the Kähler-Ricci flow. Let be an -dimensional compact Kähler manifold. Consider the Kähler-Ricci flow , on running from :
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We assume the canonical line bundle of is nef, which is equivalent to that the Kähler-Ricci flow running from an arbitrary Kähler metric can be smoothly solved for all (see [1, 13, 19]). Recall from Hamilton [6] that the infinite-time singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow are divided into three types. Precisely, a long-time solution , , to the Kähler-Ricci flow (4.1) is of
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type IIb if
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type IIIa if
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type IIIb if
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The infinite-time singularity types are about the long-time boundedness of curvature tensor of the Kähler-Ricci flow, which are crucial in understanding the singularity models of the Kähler-Ricci flow. There are many progresses in classifying infinite-time singularity types of the Kähler-Ricci flow in recent years, assuming the Abundance Conjecture (i.e. the canonical line bundle is semiample), see [4, 8, 18, 26, 27, 3]. In the surface case, a complete classification is obtained by Tosatti-Y.G.Zhang [18]. In general, without assuming the Abundance Conjecture, it seems not much progresses in determining the singularity type of the Kähler-Ricci flow. A conjecture raised by Tosatti [15, Conjecture 6.7] predicts that for the Kähler-Ricci flow on any compact Kähler manifold with nef canonical line bundle, the infinite-time singularity type does not depend on the choice of the initial metric, which is confirmed in our previous work [26, Corolloar 1.5] in -dimensional case.
Here we would like to first recall a useful criterion for type IIb singularities due to Tosatti-Y.G.Zhang [18] without assuming the Abundance Conjecture.
Proposition 4.8**.**
[18, Proposition 1.4]** Let be a compact Kähler manifold of nef canonical line bundle. Assume there is a non-constant holomorphic map such that , then any solution to the Kähler-Ricci flow (4.1) on must be of type IIb.
In their proof [18, Section 4, Remark 4.1] for Proposition 4.8, an integral inequality for a non-constant holomorphic map is derived using “-regularity argument”. Our Theorem 1.1 provides an alternative argument for [18, Section 4, Remark 4.1], and generalizes it to a more general setting. Consequently, we can also generalize the criterion in Proposition 4.8 as follows.
Corollary 4.9**.**
Let be a compact Kähler manifold of nef canonical line bundle. Assume there is a non-constant holomorphic map , where is a compact Gauduchon manifold of positive total second Ricci curvature, then any solution to the Kähler-Ricci flow (4.1) on must be of type IIb or type IIIa. If furthermore (where ), then any solution to the Kähler-Ricci flow (4.1) on must be of type IIb.
Proof.
The proof uses the ideas in Corollaries 4.1 and 4.2. Given a long-time solution to the Kähler-Ricci flow (4.1) on . Similar to Corollaries 4.1 and 4.2, we have
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where we have used that and is Gauduchon. Therefore, as ,
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, if ;
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, if .
Corollary 4.9 is proved. ∎
Remark 4.10**.**
In Corollary 4.9, if is a compact complex manifold and we are given a long-time solution to the Chern-Ricci flow (see [16, Equation (1.1)]), say , on , then similar curvature estimates hold if we replace by and by the first Bott-Chern class .
4.4. Lower bounds for and nef threshold
In this subsection, we mention that the integral inequalities (1.3) and (1.4) imply effective estimates for the number defined in Definition 2.3 and the nef threshold of , where is a Kähler class on a compact Kähler manifold and is nef. Namely,
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given any non-constant holomorphic map with a compact Gauduchon manifold, we have
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given any non-degenerate holomorphic map with a compact Gauduchon manifold and , we have
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Therefore, we have obtained the desired effectiveness results discussed in Subsection 1.2, which motivate our study, in a much more general setting. These may also be regarded as quantitative versions of Corollaries 4.2 and 4.6, respectively.
4.5. Characterizing the equality case
For integral inequality (1.3) in Theorem 1.1, we may wonder: can we conclude any particular properties if the equality is achieved? While that inequality always holds, we expect that the equality case would give restrictions on the involved data. To be more precise, let’s focus on a special setting as follows.
In Theorem 1.1, if we choose be an -dimensional compact Kähler manifold and the identity map, then for any Kähler metrics and on we have
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Then it may be natural to ask:
Question 4.11**.**
Can we conclude any particular properties if the equality in (4.2) is achieved by two Kähler metrics and on ?
It is possible to answer the above question for some special settings.
Proposition 4.12** ( being a Kähler-Einstein metric).**
Let be an -dimensional compact Kähler-Einstein manifold. For any given Kähler metric on we have
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and the equality holds for some if and only if both and are of zero or negative constant holomorphic sectional curvature.
Proof.
Firstly, recall a classical result of Berger: for a Kähler metric on and any point , we have
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where is the Fubini-Study metric on with and is regarded as a function defined on . Combining the definition of in Notation 2.2(2) implies
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where the first inequality is strict at those points with and in the last equality we used is Kähler-Einstein. Now, if there is a Kähler metric satisfying the equality in (4.3), we see
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implying that
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and hence
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It turns out that the inequalities in (4.5) are all equalities. Therefore, the holomorphic sectional curvature of is nonpositive and pointwise constant, equaling to , and hence is a constant, since is Kähler-Einstein.
On the other hand, the (4.6) implies that is smooth, and then by differentiating (4.6) we see , i.e. is a constant and is a Kähler-Einstien metric on . Therefore, is also of constant holomorphic sectional curvature, since is a compact complex space form of zero or negative curvature. Note that in the negative curvature case, by uniqueness of negative Kähler-Einstein metric, must be proportional to . ∎
By almost identical arguments, we also have
Proposition 4.13** ( being a cscK metric).**
Let be an -dimensional compact Kähler manifold of constant scalar curvature. For any given Kähler metric on we have
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and the equality holds for some if and only if is of zero or negative constant holomorphic sectional curvature and .
Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to professor Huai-Dong Cao for valuable discussions and suggestions during the study of related topics, and constant encouragement and support. He also thanks professors Valentino Tosatti for comments on our results, Jian Xiao for a number of discussions, Xiaokui Yang for pointing out results in [20], Hui-Chun Zhang and Fangyang Zheng for interest and comments on a previous version and the referees for valuable comments and suggestions.
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