Séminaires

In this talk, I will present recent joint work with S.~Matsumura, J.~Wang, and X.~Wu on the structure of compact Kähler manifolds whose anti-canonical bundle is nef. We establish a general structure theorem in the Kähler setting, showing that X admits a locally trivial fibration whose fibers are rationally connected and whose base has vanishing first Chern class. Our approach extends the method of Cao–Höring from the projective to the Kähler case, requiring new tools such as a flatness criterion for pseudo-effective sheaves and a refined analysis of direct image sheaves equipped with singular Hermitian metrics. I will also discuss the application, about the generalization of the Beauville–Bogomolov decomposition.

An important family of solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations is given by the Kerr metrics, which describe rotating black holes. In this talk, I will present some important geometric properties of these spacetimes relevant to the study of classical field equations such as the scalar waves, electromagnetism and linearized gravity. As observed by Teukolsky, by exploiting a special algebraic property of the spacetime, it is possible to decouple certain components of the fields from the rest of the system, leading to the so-called Teukolsky equation. Solutions of this equation can then be analyzed to recover information about the full system.