Kähler manifold
Variedad de Kähler
- Date
- 1933 · confidence medium
- Place
- Hamburg, Germany
- Credited to
- Erich Kähler
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A differential-geometric structure combining, in a compatible way, a complex structure, a Riemannian structure and a symplectic structure on a single manifold, introduced by Erich Kähler building on earlier work by Schouten and van Dantzig.
What it led to
- development of complex geometry and Hodge theory
- applications in string theory and theoretical physics
- foundation of modern algebraic geometry