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Characteristic forms of complex Cartan geometries

Benjamin McKay
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We calculate relations on characteristic classes which are obstructions preventing closed Kähler manifolds from carrying holomorphic Cartan geometries. We apply these relations to give global constraints on the phase spaces of complex analytic determined and underdetermined systems of differential equations.

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Benjamin McKay. 2008-12-09. Characteristic forms of complex Cartan geometries. https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2555

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