Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium

November 24, 2007 (Saturday)

Room 517, Meng Wah Complex, HKU

 


 

Professor Nessim Sibony

Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Dynamics of Holomorphic foliations in CP2

 

Abstract

The goal is to describe some global dynamical properties of polynomial vector fields in C2. It's more appropriate to consider the extension as a holomorphic foliation in the complex projective space P2. Let F be a holomorphic foliation of P2 by Riemann surfaces. Assume all the singular points of F are hyperbolic. If F has no algebraic leaf, then there is a unique positive harmonic (1, 1) current T of mass one, directed by F. This implies strong ergodic properties for the foliation F. This is joint work with J.E. FORNAESS.