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MATH751 KAHLER MANIFOLDS AND HODGE THEORY

Course Code: 2360751
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Brief review of complex manifolds, holomorphic vector bundles, connections, Chern classes. Harmonic forms, elliptic differential operators, main existence and uniqueness results. Harmonic forms applied to Kahler manifolds: Hodge decomposition, Lefschetz decomposition, Hodge Index Theorem. Applications to the topology of algebraic varieties.