© 2008 London Mathematical Society
Chern numbers and diffeomorphism types of projective varieties
Mathematisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstr. 39, 80333 München, Germany dieter@member.ams.org
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In 1954, Hirzebruch asked which linear combinations of Chern numbers are topological invariants of smooth complex projective varieties. We give a complete answer to this question in small dimensions, and also prove partial results without restrictions on the dimension.
Received June 22, 2007.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 57R20 (primary), 14J30, 14J35, 32Q55 (secondary)