
In this paper the authors give a fixed-point formula for (lifting to an automorphism group of) a Lie algebra character on the complex Lie algebra of holomorphic fields on a closed Kähler manifold, the latter being an obstruction for Kähler classes to contain a metric with constant scalar curvature. In order to put things in context, let us consider the following situation. Let \(M\) be a closed Kähler manifold of complex dimension \(m\), \(h(M)\) -- the Lie algebra of holomorphic vector fields, and let \(\omega\in \Omega\) be a Kähler form contained in the Kähler cohomology class \(\Omega\). Then there is a complex-valued Lie algebra character \(f_\Omega:h(M)\to C\), which is an obstruction for \(\Omega\) to contain a metric of constant scalar curvature. Under certain circumstances this Lie algebra character ``lifts'' to an additive group character defined on a subgroup \(G\) of a (Lie) group of biholomorphic automorphisms of \(M\). This is the case for a (finite) cyclic subgroup \(G\) (generated by an automorphism \(\sigma)\). In this case the character \(f_\Omega\) lifts to a group character \(\widehat f_\Omega\) on \(G\) defined as an algebraic expression in terms of Chern-Simons classes of the mapping torus of the natural lift of \(\sigma\) to an automorphism of some complex line bundle over the mapping torus of \(\sigma\) (Chern-Simons classes being computed with the help of the Bott connection related to a natural complex foliation of the mapping torus). The main result of the paper is a formula, which expresses Chern-Simons classes (and therefore the character \(\widehat f_\Omega)\) in terms of the class \(\Omega\) and Chern classes of the normal bundles to the smooth components of the fixed-point set of the automorphism \(\sigma\). The proof of the formula is based on an interpretation of its entries as the eta-invariant of Dirac-type operators connected with the natural \(\text{Spin}^c\)-structure on the mapping torus, and the index theorem.
Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants, Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.), positive and constant scalar curvature, Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds, Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions, Kähler manifolds, Kähler-Einstein metrics, eta-invariant, fixed-point formulae, Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds, \(\text{Spin}^c\)-operator, Lie algebra character, metric of constant scalar curvature, Chern-Simons classes
Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants, Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.), positive and constant scalar curvature, Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds, Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions, Kähler manifolds, Kähler-Einstein metrics, eta-invariant, fixed-point formulae, Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds, \(\text{Spin}^c\)-operator, Lie algebra character, metric of constant scalar curvature, Chern-Simons classes
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