A brief survey on complex geometry

Abstract

We introduce some fundamental principles and classic theorems in the research of complex geometry, with emphasis on some major research fields and significant progresses in Kähler geometry in the past decades.

Keywords

Complex geometry / Kähler-Einstein manifolds / Hodge conjecture / Calabi-Yau manifolds / canonical metrics

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