Paper · Oct 26, 2026

Chern holonomy under the first and second Chern–Ricci flows

Yuan Liao

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We compare the Chern holonomy of the first and second Chern-Ricci flows on compact complex manifolds. For the first flow, we construct an explicit immortal pluriclosed solution on a complex two-torus with full and restricted holonomy , except at one finite time when both groups are ; its smooth limit has holonomy . The solution is uniformly nondegenerate and has bounds of every fixed differential order for all time. In contrast, the second Chern-Ricci flow preserves full and restricted Chern holonomy under the natural unitary identification, including the initial time and nonclosed groups. The proof combines preservation of a connection reduction, positive-time analyticity, and a path-transport comparison. As an application, the optimal minimum mean curvature on a holomorphic bundle is unchanged when metrics are restricted to any realizable full and restricted holonomy class. An explicit projected-curvature source explains the failure of the corresponding Ricci-flow holonomy argument.

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