• Media type: Electronic Thesis; Doctoral Thesis; E-Book
  • Title: L 2 -index theory, the Chern conjecture, and manifolds of special holonomy
  • Contributor: Hoffmann, Michael [Author]
  • imprint: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2014-12-12
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/20.500.11811/6147
  • Keywords: holonomy ; Differentialgeometrie ; Holonomie ; Indextheorie ; index theory ; Chern conjecture ; global analysis ; Globale Analysis ; Chernvermutung ; differential geometry
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  • Description: In this dissertation we study a conjecture attributed to Chern and Hopf, a generalization of Atiyah's L 2 -index theorem used by Gromov to prove said conjecture for Kähler manifolds, and an extension to Kähler orbifolds and all known examples of quaternionic Kähler manifolds. The study of a two-form η with values in a bundle G over a quaternionic Kähler manifold motivates us to show vanishing results for the cohomology of so 5 (C)-modules. We use these results to show that in certain degrees all G-valued d ∇ -closed forms are d ∇ -exact.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: In Copyright