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Kähler Manifold


A Kähler manifold is a complex manifold for which the exterior derivative of the fundamental form Omega associated with the given Hermitian metric vanishes, so dOmega=0. In other words, it is a complex manifold with a Kähler structure. It has a Kähler form, so it is also a symplectic manifold. It has a Kähler metric, so it is also a Riemannian manifold.

The simplest example of a Kähler manifold is a Riemann surface, which is a complex manifold of dimension 1. In this case, the imaginary part of any Hermitian metric must be a closed form since all 2-forms are closed on a two real dimensional manifold.


See also

Abelianity Conjecture, Bott-Chern Cohomology, Brody Hyperbolic Manifold, Complex Manifold, Fubini-Study Metric, Holomorphic Bisectional Curvature, Holomorphic Sectional Curvature, Hyper-Kähler Manifold, Iitaka Conjecture, Kähler Form, Kähler Identities, Kähler Metric, Kähler Potential, Kähler Structure, Kobayashi Canonical-Ampleness Conjecture, Log Abundance Conjecture, Quaternion Kähler Manifold, Rationally Connected Variety, Riemannian Metric, Special Variety, Symplectic Manifold, Yau Uniformization Conjecture

Portions of this entry contributed by Todd Rowland

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Weisstein, Eric W., with contributions by Todd Rowland. "Kähler Manifold." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/KaehlerManifold.html

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