2014/01/29 by Biswas, Indranil, Seshadri, Harish
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1401.7408
Let Sn(X) be the n-fold symmetric product of a compact connected Riemann surface X of genus g and gonality d. We prove that Sn(X) admits a Kähler structure such that all the holomorphic bisectional curvatures are nonpositive if and only if n < d. Let \mathcal QX(r,n) be the Quot scheme parametrizing the torsion quotients of \mathcal O⊕ rX of degree n. If g ≥ 2 and n ≤ 2g-2, we prove that \mathcal QX(r,n) does not admit a Kähler structure such that all the holomorphic bisectional curvatures are nonnegative.