A residue formula for meromorphic connections and applications to stable sets of foliations

Abstract: We discuss residue formulae that localize the first Chern class of a line bundle to the singular locus of a given holomorphic connection. As an application, we explain a proof for Brunella's conjecture about exceptional minimal sets of codimension one holomorphic foliations with ample normal bundle and for a nonexistence theorem of Levi flat hypersurfaces with transversely affine Levi foliation in compact K\"ahler surfaces.