PRINCIPAL BUNDLES ON RATIONALLY CONNECTED FIBRATIONS OVER ABELIAN VARIETIES

Abstract

Let f : M → A be a smooth surjective algebraic morphism, where M is a connected complex projective manifold and A a complex abelian variety, such that all the fibers of f are rationally connected. We show that an algebraic principal G-bundle EG over M admits a flat holomorphic connection if EG admits a holomorphic connection; here G is any connected reductive linear algebraic group defined over ℂ. We also show that EG admits a holomorphic connection if and only if any of the following three statements holds. (1) The principal G-bundle EG is semistable, c2( ad (EG)) = 0, and all the line bundles associated to EG for the characters of G have vanishing rational first Chern class. (2) There is an algebraic principal G-bundle E'G on A such that f*E'G = EG, and all the translations of E'G by elements of A are isomorphic to E'G itself. (3) There is a finite étale Galois cover [Formula: see text] and a reduction of structure group [Formula: see text] to a Borel subgroup B ⊂ G such that all the line bundles associated to ÊB for the characters of B have vanishing rational first Chern class. In particular, the above three statements are equivalent.