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Prescribed Chern scalar curvatures on complete Hermitian manifolds

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Pith's one-line read Existence of Hermitian metrics with prescribed Chern scalar curvature extends to higher-dimensional complete noncompact manifolds

desk verdict This extends Aviles-McOwen to prescribing Chern scalar curvature on higher-dimensional complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds under explicit decay conditions, using a standard continuity method. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.14592 v5 pith:NS5RSXQJ submitted 2025-06-17 math.DG

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This paper generalizes an existence result for prescribing Chern scalar curvature from the two-dimensional Poincaré disk to complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds in arbitrary dimensions. It shows that suitable metrics exist when the prescribed function and the manifold obey appropriate technical conditions on decay and integrability. A sympathetic reader cares because the construction supplies Hermitian metrics with controlled curvature in higher dimensions, which bears on the geometry of noncompact complex manifolds and the broader question of realizing prescribed curvature data.

What carries the argument

The Chern scalar curvature, obtained by tracing the Chern curvature form against the Hermitian metric, which serves as the target quantity in the existence statement that carries over from two to higher dimensions via analytic methods.

What would settle it

A concrete higher-dimensional complete noncompact Hermitian manifold together with a curvature function obeying the stated decay conditions, yet for which no Hermitian metric with that Chern scalar curvature exists, would disprove the generalization.

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Core claim

We prove that given a complete noncompact Hermitian manifold of any complex dimension and a smooth function satisfying suitable decay and integrability conditions at infinity, there exists a Hermitian metric whose Chern scalar curvature equals the prescribed function, thereby extending the Aviles-McOwen existence theorem from the Poincaré disk to higher dimensions.

Load-bearing premise

The prescribed curvature function and the underlying complete noncompact Hermitian manifold satisfy the technical decay or integrability conditions needed for the two-dimensional proof to extend.

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  • Hermitian metrics with the prescribed Chern scalar curvature exist on complete noncompact manifolds beyond the two-dimensional case.
  • The result applies whenever the manifold and the curvature function meet the required decay and integrability assumptions.
  • Constant Chern scalar curvature metrics can be realized on the same class of higher-dimensional manifolds.

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  • The same decay conditions may permit prescribing related curvature quantities such as the Chern-Ricci form on these manifolds.
  • Explicit examples such as complex hyperbolic space or certain Stein manifolds could be used to test the existence statement numerically or asymptotically.
  • The dimension-independent character of the result suggests possible extensions to other classes of non-Kähler Hermitian structures.
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Summary. The manuscript claims to generalize the Aviles-McOwen existence theorem for prescribing Gaussian curvature on the Poincaré disk to the problem of prescribing Chern scalar curvature on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds of arbitrary dimension. The main result, Theorem 1.1, asserts existence under explicit decay and integrability hypotheses on the prescribed curvature function and the Hermitian metric at infinity, proved via a continuity method together with a priori estimates that rely on the stated decay conditions.

Significance. If the result holds, the work provides a higher-dimensional extension of a classical prescribing-curvature theorem to the Hermitian (not necessarily Kähler) setting. The explicit hypotheses and the construction of sub- and super-solutions without hidden appeals to Kähler identities constitute a clear technical contribution that could serve as a template for related problems on noncompact Hermitian manifolds.

major comments (1)
  1. [Theorem 1.1 and §3] Theorem 1.1 and §3 (a priori estimates): the claim that the estimates depend only on the given decay is load-bearing; the manuscript should verify that the maximum-principle argument for the semilinear equation does not tacitly use any dimension-specific identity that fails for non-Kähler Hermitian metrics.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract omits any mention of the dimension range or the precise decay class; adding one sentence would improve readability.
  2. [§1] Notation for the Chern scalar curvature should be introduced once in §1 and used consistently thereafter.

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We thank the referee for the positive evaluation and the recommendation for minor revision. We address the major comment point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Theorem 1.1 and §3] Theorem 1.1 and §3 (a priori estimates): the claim that the estimates depend only on the given decay is load-bearing; the manuscript should verify that the maximum-principle argument for the semilinear equation does not tacitly use any dimension-specific identity that fails for non-Kähler Hermitian metrics.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's careful scrutiny of the a priori estimates. In Section 3 the estimates are derived by applying the standard maximum principle to the semilinear elliptic equation satisfied by the conformal factor. The derivation uses only the general formula for the Chern scalar curvature in terms of the Hermitian metric and its Chern connection; no appeal is made to the Kähler condition (closedness of the fundamental form) or to any identity that holds only in Kähler geometry. The maximum principle for second-order elliptic operators is valid on Hermitian manifolds in any dimension. To make this independence explicit, we will add a short clarifying remark at the beginning of Section 3 stating that the argument relies solely on the Hermitian structure and the given decay hypotheses. revision: yes

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The paper generalizes the external Aviles-McOwen existence theorem (cited from J. Differential Geom. 1985, distinct authors) for prescribing Gaussian curvature on the Poincaré disk to the setting of Chern scalar curvature on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds of arbitrary dimension. Theorem 1.1 states explicit decay and integrability hypotheses on the prescribed function and Hermitian metric at infinity; the proof constructs sub- and super-solutions for the associated semilinear elliptic PDE and applies the continuity method together with a priori estimates that depend only on those hypotheses. No step reduces by construction to a fitted parameter, self-defined quantity, or load-bearing self-citation; the cited base result is independent external input, and the argument remains self-contained against the stated technical conditions without renaming known patterns or smuggling ansatzes.

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In this paper, we investigate the problem of prescribing Chern scalar curvatures on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds, and generalize the Aviles-McOwen's existence results [J. Differential Geom., 21 (1985): 269-281] from Poincar\'e disks to higher dimensional Hermitian manifolds.

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