| Members Seminar | |
| Topic: | Hodge and Chern Numbers of Algebraic Varieties 60 Years After Hirzebruch's Riemann-Roch Theorem |
| Speaker: | Dieter Kotschick |
| Affiliation: | Universitat Munchen; Member, School of Mathematics |
| Date: | Monday, March 4 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
In its simplest form, Hirzebruch's 1953 Riemann-Roch theorem is an identity between certain combinations of Hodge numbers on the one hand and certain combinations of Chern numbers on the other. I will show that there are no other such identities, beyond HRR. I will also discuss the topological non-invariance of Hodge and Chern numbers, exhibiting systematic examples of diffeomorphic varieties with distinct Hodge and Chern numbers. This leads to the complete solution of a problem posed by Hirzebruch in connection with Riemann-Roch. (This talk is based in part on joint work with S. Schreieder.)