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The moduli space of holomorphic normal projective connections is an affine space, or empty, as it is identified with the collection of all holomorphic 1-cocycles whose coboundary is a suitable ``traceless Atiyah class'' of the tangent bundle. The paper

Robert Molzon and Karen Pinney Mortensen, The Schwarzian derivative for maps between manifolds with complex projective connections, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), no. 8, 3015–3036. MR 1348154 (96j:32028) 27, 55

is perhaps the best introduction to the theory of complex projective connections. I don't know a good reference for the relation to the Atiyah class, though it appears somewhere in the work of Kobayashi. The moduli space of flat holomorphic projective connections on a compact complex manifold is a complex subvariety, not known to be smooth.

The moduli space of holomorphic normal projective connections is an affine space, as it is identified with the collection of all holomorphic 1-cocycles whose coboundary is a suitable ``traceless Atiyah class'' of the tangent bundle. The paper

Robert Molzon and Karen Pinney Mortensen, The Schwarzian derivative for maps between manifolds with complex projective connections, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), no. 8, 3015–3036. MR 1348154 (96j:32028) 27, 55

is perhaps the best introduction to the theory of complex projective connections. I don't know a good reference for the relation to the Atiyah class, though it appears somewhere in the work of Kobayashi. The moduli space of flat holomorphic projective connections on a compact complex manifold is a complex subvariety, not known to be smooth.

The moduli space of holomorphic normal projective connections is an affine space, or empty, as it is identified with the collection of all holomorphic 1-cocycles whose coboundary is a suitable ``traceless Atiyah class'' of the tangent bundle. The paper

Robert Molzon and Karen Pinney Mortensen, The Schwarzian derivative for maps between manifolds with complex projective connections, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), no. 8, 3015–3036. MR 1348154 (96j:32028) 27, 55

is perhaps the best introduction to the theory of complex projective connections. I don't know a good reference for the relation to the Atiyah class, though it appears somewhere in the work of Kobayashi. The moduli space of flat holomorphic projective connections on a compact complex manifold is a complex subvariety, not known to be smooth.

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Ben McKay
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The moduli space of holomorphic normal projective connections is an affine space, as it is identified with the collection of all holomorphic 1-cocycles whose coboundary is a suitable ``traceless Atiyah class'' of the tangent bundle. The paper

Robert Molzon and Karen Pinney Mortensen, The Schwarzian derivative for maps between manifolds with complex projective connections, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), no. 8, 3015–3036. MR 1348154 (96j:32028) 27, 55

is perhaps the best introduction to the theory of complex projective connections. I don't know a good reference for the relation to the Atiyah class, though it appears somewhere in the work of Kobayashi. The moduli space of flat holomorphic projective connections on a compact complex manifold is a complex subvariety, not known to be smooth.