The relationship of the Gaussian curvature with the curvature of a Cowen-Douglas operator

Abstract

It has been recently shown that if $K$ is a sesqui-analytic scalar valued non-negative definite kernel on a domain $\Omega$ in ${\mathbb{C}}^m$, then the function $(K^2{\partial }_i{\bar{\partial }}_j\log K{)}_{i,j=1}^m,$ is also a non-negative definite kernel on $\Omega$. In this paper, we discuss two consequences of this result. The first one strengthens the curvature inequality for operators in the Cowen-Douglas class $B_1(\Omega )$ while the second one gives a relationship of the reproducing kernel of a submodule of certain Hilbert modules with the curvature of the associated quotient module.

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