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Flat torus dolbeault harmonic representatives
Example
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice), inherited through the harmonic-projection, finiteness and duality items used below. Let be a lattice: are -linearly independent complex numbers. Let be the quotient by the translation action of , with its quotient topology (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection); the action is a covering-space action with quotient map a covering (Covering-space actions by disjoint translates of neighbourhoods, The orbit map of a covering-space action is a covering, with the acting group equal to the deck group when the total space is path-connected, Covering maps are surjective local homeomorphisms with discrete fibres). Then is a compact Riemann surface: the local inverses of are charts, and their transition functions are translations, hence holomorphic (Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases, Topological manifolds without boundary: Hausdorff, second-countable, and locally Euclidean spaces, Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts); compactness holds because the closed fundamental parallelogram maps onto .
Let be the trivial holomorphic line bundle and let be the Hermitian metric with ; let be the flat compatible Riemannian metric transported from the Euclidean metric of . Then:
- : the harmonic functions for are exactly the constants.
- : the harmonic -forms are exactly the constant multiples of .
- has dimension , with harmonic representative ; equivalently, under harmonic star duality the holomorphic differentials on are exactly the constant multiples of , so .
- The same conclusions hold with for the square torus , the model computed below.
Here denotes the harmonic space with its smooth representatives, while denotes smooth Dolbeault cohomology.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The two real-linearly independent periods, the translation quotient, the trivial holomorphic bundle with weight , the transported Euclidean metric, and full AC. The symbols on denote descended forms; itself is only a local coordinate.
A covering-space action has a covering quotient map; covering maps are local homeomorphisms. A Riemann surface is a nonempty connected Hausdorff second-countable space with a holomorphic atlas (Covering-space actions by disjoint translates of neighbourhoods, The orbit map of a covering-space action is a covering, with the acting group equal to the deck group when the total space is path-connected, Covering maps are surjective local homeomorphisms with discrete fibres, Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases).
Harmonic forms in both degrees are smooth; degree zero is and degree one is . On smooth forms with , and (The maximal Dolbeault operator and its Hilbert adjoint on a compact Riemann surface, Elliptic regularity for Dolbeault harmonic forms, The Dolbeault adjoint and Laplacian: local formulas and ellipticity).
Bounded entire functions are constant (Liouville's theorem: every bounded entire function is constant).
Smooth degree-one cohomology classes have unique harmonic representatives; the degree-zero group is the holomorphic-section space. The bundle star gives a conjugate-linear isomorphism from the degree-one harmonic space to , and in these flat trivial conventions sends to (Hodge decomposition for Dolbeault forms on a compact Riemann surface, Dolbeault cohomology of a compact riemann surface is finite dimensional, Harmonic star duality for line bundle valued dolbeault cohomology, Hermitian metric and pairing on a compact Riemann surface).
Verification
Given: The data in the Example and Facts.
The real-linear isomorphism has continuous inverse. Its inverse is bounded, so for some , ; every nonzero period therefore has length at least . Disks of radius less than have pairwise disjoint lattice translates and give the covering-action neighborhoods in [F1]. The quotient map is open since the preimage of the image of an open set is the union of its translates. The quotient is Hausdorff: for inequivalent , only finitely many lattice points lie in any bounded disk by the bound just proved, so ; sufficiently small disks about project to disjoint neighborhoods. Images of a countable base of disks in give a countable base of the quotient. It is nonempty and connected as a continuous image of . The projected closed parallelogram covers it by subtracting integer parts of the real coordinates, and is compact, making compact. Local inverses of the quotient map give charts with translation transitions. These are holomorphic and smooth, establishing the asserted compact Riemann surface and the descended flat compatible metric. Translation invariance also descends ; no fundamental parallelogram is treated as a single global chart.
By [F2], a harmonic function is smooth and its lift is entire and lattice-periodic. It is bounded on the compact parallelogram and hence everywhere, so [F3] makes it constant. Conversely constants have zero Dolbeault derivative and are harmonic by [F2]. Every smooth degree-one form is with a periodic smooth coefficient, since is a global frame. Its adjoint vanishes exactly when , so is an entire periodic function on the cover. The same boundedness and [F3] make constant; conversely constant coefficients have zero adjoint and are harmonic. Thus and .
By [F4] each smooth Dolbeault class has a unique representative in the space computed in step 2.1, so the quotient is spanned by . This class is nonzero: if with smooth , the adjoint identity gives , contradicting its everywhere nonzero pointwise norm and positive volume. Hence has dimension one and is its harmonic representative. A holomorphic differential lifts to with entire periodic coefficient , so [F3] makes constant; conversely descends and is holomorphic. Thus , consistently with the conjugate-linear star formula in [F4]. Taking specializes every argument to the square torus. Full AC is inherited through [F2] and [F4]; the geometric construction and Liouville computation introduce no further choice.
Source notes
Demailly’s Dolbeault results in §7 apply to a holomorphic Hermitian bundle; the flat-connection de Rham decomposition in §3.3 is contextual and is not used for a varying Hermitian weight. The verification above uses proved local operator interfaces and gives the concrete calculation itself.
Depends on
- Dolbeault cohomology of a compact riemann surface is finite dimensional
- The Axiom of Choice
- Bigraded complex forms and the Dolbeault operators
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Covering-space actions by disjoint translates of neighbourhoods
- Hermitian metric and $L^2$ pairing on a compact Riemann surface
- Holomorphic line bundles and meromorphic sections on a Riemann surface
- The maximal Dolbeault operator and its Hilbert adjoint on a compact Riemann surface
- The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection
- Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases
- Riemannian metric and riemannian manifold
- Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts
- Topological manifolds without boundary: Hausdorff, second-countable, and locally Euclidean spaces
- The Wirtinger derivatives $\partial_z f$ and $\partial_{\bar z}f$, and antiholomorphic functions
- The Dolbeault adjoint and Laplacian: local formulas and ellipticity
- Covering maps are surjective local homeomorphisms with discrete fibres
- The d, partial and dbar identities
- Elliptic regularity for Dolbeault harmonic forms
- Harmonic star duality for line bundle valued dolbeault cohomology
- Hodge decomposition for Dolbeault forms on a compact Riemann surface
- Liouville's theorem: every bounded entire function is constant
- Maximum modulus principle with boundary and infinity control
- The orbit map of a covering-space action is a covering, with the acting group equal to the deck group when the total space is path-connected
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Sources
- Jean-Pierre Demailly, Complex Analytic and Differential Geometry (author manuscript, Universite Grenoble Alpes) (standard reference, not scraped)