Eigenvalues of vector fields, Bott's residue formula and integral invariants

Abstract

Given a compatible vector field on a compact connected almost-complex manifold, we show in this article that the multiplicities of eigenvalues among the zero point set of this vector field have intimate relations. We highlight a special case of our result and reinterpret it as a vanishing-type result in the framework of the celebrated Atiyah–Bott–Singer localization formula. This new point of view, via the Chern–Weil theory and a strengthened version of Bott's residue formula, can lead to an obstruction to Killing real holomorphic vector fields on compact Hermitian manifolds in terms of a curvature integral.