Introduction to Bergman geometry

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jihun Yum – Gyeongsang National University in South Korea
Organizer
John Etnyre

The Poincaré metric on the unit disc DC, known for its invariance under all biholomorphisms (bijective holomorphic maps) of D, is one of the most fundamental Riemannian metrics in differential geometry.

In this presentation, we will first introduce the Bergman metric on a bounded domain in Cn, which can be viewed as a generalization of the Poincaré metric. We will then explore some key theorems that illustrate how the curvature of the Bergman metric characterizes bounded domains in Cn and more generally, complex manifolds. Finally, I will discuss my recent work related to these concepts.