BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos

Banff International Research Station Logo

BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos

The Yamabe invariant of Inoue surfaces Albanese, Michael

Description

The Yamabe invariant is a real-valued diffeomorphism invariant coming from Riemannian geometry. Using Seiberg-Witten theory, LeBrun showed that the sign of the Yamabe invariant of a Kähler surface is determined by its Kodaira dimension. We show that the Yamabe invariant of Inoue surfaces and their blowups is zero which demonstrates that the non-Kähler analogue of LeBrun's theorem does not hold.

Item Media

Item Citations and Data

Rights

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International