Segre class
In mathematics, the Segre class is a characteristic class used in the study of cones, a generalization of vector bundles. For vector bundles the total Segre class is inverse to the total Chern class, and thus provides equivalent information; the advantage of the Segre class is that it generalizes to more general cones, while the Chern class does not. The Segre class was introduced in the non-singular case by Beniamino Segre (1953).
Definition
Suppose is a cone over , is the projection from the projective completion of to , and is the canonical line bundle on . The Chern class is a group endomorphism of the Chow ring of . The th Segre class of is given by for non-negative integers . The total Segre class is the sum of the Segre classes.
The reason for using rather than is that this makes the total Segre class stable under addition of the trivial bundle .
Relation to Chern classes for vector bundles
For a holomorphic vector bundle over a complex manifold a total Segre class is the inverse to the total Chern class , see e.g.[1]
Explicitly, for a total Chern class
one gets the total Segre class
where
Let be Chern roots, i.e. formal eigenvalues of where is a curvature of a connection on .
While the Chern class s(E) is written as
where is an elementary symmetric polynomial of degree in variables
the Segre for the dual bundle which has Chern roots is written as
Expanding the above expression in powers of one can see that is represented by a complete homogeneous symmetric polynomial of
References
- ↑ Fulton W. (1998). Intersection theory, p.50. Springer, 1998.
- Segre, Beniamino (1953), "Nuovi metodi e resultati nella geometria sulle varietà algebriche", Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (in Italian), 35 (4): 1–127, MR 0061420