Zeros of Holomorphic One-Forms and Topology of Kähler Manifolds

A conjecture of Kotschick predicts that a compact Kähler manifold X fibres smoothly over the circle if and only if it admits a holomorphic one-form without zeros. In this paper we develop an approach to this conjecture and verify it in dimension two. In a joint paper with Hao [10], we use our approach to prove Kotschick’s conjecture for smooth projective three-folds.