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 ESI Lectures in Mathematics and Physics 2006; 182 pp; softcover Volume: 2 ISBN-10: 3-03719-025-6 ISBN-13: 978-3-03719-025-8 List Price: US$44 Member Price: US$35.20 Order Code: EMSESILEC/2 These notes are based on lectures the author gave at the University of Bonn and the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna. The aim is to give a thorough introduction to the theory of Kähler manifolds with special emphasis on the differential geometric side of Kähler geometry. The exposition starts with a short discussion of complex manifolds and holomorphic vector bundles and a detailed account of the basic differential geometric properties of Kähler manifolds. The more advanced topics are the cohomology of Kähler manifolds, Calabi conjecture, Gromov's Kähler hyperbolic spaces, and the Kodaira embedding theorem. Some familiarity with global analysis and partial differential equations is assumed, in particular in the part on the Calabi conjecture. There are appendices on Chern-Weil theory, symmetric spaces, and $$L^2$$-cohomology. A publication of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Distributed within the Americas by the American Mathematical Society. Readership Graduate students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. Table of Contents Preliminaries Complex manifolds Holomorphic vector bundles Kähler manifolds Cohomology of Kähler manifolds Ricci curvature and global structure Calabi conjecture Kähler hyperbolic spaces Kodaira embedding theorem Appendix A. Chern-Weil theory Appendix B. Symmetric spaces Appendix C. Remarks on differential operators Literature Index