We study compact Kähler manifolds $X$ admitting nonvanishing holomorphic vector fields, extending the classical birational classification of projective varieties with tangent vector fields to a classification modulo deformation in the Kähler case, and biholomorphic in the projective case. We introduce and analyze a new class of $\mathrm{𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠}$, and show that they form a smooth subspace in the Kuranishi space of deformations of the complex structure of $X$. We extend Calabi’s theorem on the structure of compact Kähler...

We consider representations of the fundamental group of the four punctured sphere into $\mathrm{SL}(2,ℂ)$. The moduli space of representations modulo conjugacy is the character variety. The Mapping Class Group of the punctured sphere acts on this space by symplectic polynomial automorphisms. This dynamical system can be interpreted as the monodromy of the Painlevé VI equation. Infinite bounded orbits are characterized: they come from $\mathsf{SU}\left(\mathsf{2}\right)$-representations. We prove the absence of invariant affine structure (and invariant...