Chern forms of holomorphic Finsler vector bundles and some applications

Abstract

In this paper, we present two kinds of total Chern forms [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] as well as a total Segre form [Formula: see text] of a holomorphic Finsler vector bundle [Formula: see text] expressed by the Finsler metric [Formula: see text], which answers a question of Faran [The equivalence problem for complex Finsler Hamiltonians, in Finsler Geometry, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 196 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1996), pp. 133–144] to some extent. As some applications, we show that the signed Segre forms [Formula: see text] are positive [Formula: see text]-forms on [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text] is of positive Kobayashi curvature; we prove, under an extra assumption, that a Finsler–Einstein vector bundle in the sense of Kobayashi is semi-stable; we introduce a new definition of a flat Finsler metric, which is weaker than Aikou’s one [Finsler geometry on complex vector bundles, in A Sampler of Riemann–Finsler Geometry, MSRI Publications, Vol. 50 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 83–105] and prove that a holomorphic vector bundle is Finsler flat in our sense if and only if it is Hermitian flat.