Positivity of signed Chern character numbers for irreducible hyper-Kähler manifolds

Let MM be a compact almost-complex manifold of real dimension 2n2n, with Chern roots x1,,xnx_1,\ldots,x_n. Define its Chern character components by

chi(M):=x1i++xnii!H2i(M;Q).\operatorname{ch}_i(M):=\frac{x_1^i+\cdots+x_n^i}{i!}\in H^{2i}(M;\mathbb{Q}).

For an integer partition λ=(λ1,,λl(λ))\lambda=(\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_{l(\lambda)}) of weight nn, define the Chern character number

Chλ[M]:=Mi=1l(λ)chi(M)Q.\operatorname{Ch}_{\lambda}[M]:=\int_M\prod_{i=1}^{l(\lambda)}\operatorname{ch}_i(M)\in\mathbb{Q}.

Chern-character positivity conjecture. All signed Chern character numbers (1)nCh2λ(-1)^n\operatorname{Ch}_{2\lambda}, where λ=n|\lambda|=n, of irreducible hyper-Kähler manifolds are positive. Positivity of these numbers is known for generalized Kummer varieties, but the assertion for all irreducible hyper-Kähler manifolds remains open.

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Ping Li, “The complex genera, symmetric functions and multiple zeta values”, arXiv:2112.01192 (2024).

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