Formality in generalized Kähler geometry

We prove that no nilpotent Lie algebra admits an invariant generalized Kähler structure. This is done by showing that a certain differential graded algebra associated to a generalized complex manifold is formal in the generalized Kähler case, while it is never formal for a generalized complex structure on a nilpotent Lie algebra.     

Extremal Kähler metrics on projective bundles over a curve

Let M=P(E) be the complex manifold underlying the total space of the projectivization of a holomorphic vector bundle E→Σ over a compact complex curve Σ of genus ?2. Building on ideas of Fujiki (1992) [27], we prove that M admits a Kähler metric of constant scalar curvature if and only if E is polystable. We also address the more general existence problem of extremal Kähler metrics on such bundles and prove that the splitting of E as a direct sum of stable subbundles is necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of extremal Kähler metrics in Kähler classes sufficiently far from the boundary of the Kähler cone. The methods used to prove the above results apply to a wider class of manifolds, called rigid toric bundles over a semisimple base, which are fibrations associated to a principal torus bundle over a product of constant scalar curvature Kähler manifolds with fibres isomorphic to a given toric Kähler variety. We discuss various ramifications of our approach to this class of manifolds.     

A universal formula for deformation quantization on Kähler manifolds

We give an explicit local formula for any formal deformation quantization, with separation of variables, on a Kähler manifold. The formula is given in terms of differential operators, parametrized by acyclic combinatorial graphs.     

A compactness result for Kähler Ricci solitons

In this paper we prove a compactness result for compact Kähler Ricci gradient shrinking solitons. If (Mi,gi) is a sequence of Kähler Ricci solitons of real dimension n?4, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded Ln/2 norms, whose Ricci curvatures are uniformly bounded from below and μ(gi,1/2)?A (where μ is Perelman's functional), there is a subsequence (Mi,gi) converging to a compact orbifold (M_∞,g_∞) with finitely many isolated singularities, where g_∞ is a Kähler Ricci soliton metric in an orbifold sense (satisfies a soliton equation away from singular points and smoothly extends in some gauge to a metric satisfying Kähler Ricci soliton equation in a lifting around singular points).     

On Kähler manifolds with positive orthogonal bisectional curvature

For any irreducible Kähler manifold which admits positive orthogonal bisectional curvature and C₁>0, if this positivity condition is preserved under the flow, then the underlying manifold is biholomorphic to CPn.     

Twisted holomorphic chains and vortex equations over non-compact Kähler manifolds

In this paper, we study twisted holomorphic chains and related gauge equations over non-compact Kähler manifolds. We use the heat flow method to solve the Dirichlet boundary problem for the related gauge equations, and prove a Hitchin-Kobayashi type correspondence for twisted holomorphic chain over some non-compact Kähler manifolds.     

Conification construction for Kähler manifolds and its application in c-projective geometry

Two Kähler metrics on a complex manifold are called c-projectively equivalent if their J  -planar curves coincide. Such curves are defined by the property that the acceleration is complex proportional to the velocity. The degree of mobility of a Kähler metric is the dimension of the space of metrics that are c-projectively equivalent to it. We give the list of all possible values of the degree of mobility of a simply connected Kähler manifold by reducing the problem to the study of parallel Hermitian (0,2)$(0,2)$-tensors on the conification of the manifold. We also describe all such values for a Kähler–Einstein metric. We apply these results to describe all possible dimensions of the space of essential c-projective vector fields of Kähler and Kähler–Einstein metrics. We also show that two c-projectively equivalent Kähler–Einstein metrics (of arbitrary signature) on a closed manifold have constant holomorphic curvature or are affinely equivalent.     

Four-Dimensional Almost Kähler Einstein and *-Einstein Manifolds

In the framework of studying the integrability of almost Kähler manifolds, we prove that a four-dimensional almost Kähler Einstein and -Einstein manifold is a Kähler manifold. Further, we estimate the *-scalar curvature of a four-dimensional compact almost Kähler Einstein and weakly *-Einstein manifold with negative scalar curvature.     

Hyper-Hermitian Quaternionic Kähler Manifolds

We call a quaternionic Kähler manifold with nonzero scalar curvature, whosequaternionic structure is trivialized by a hypercomplex structure, ahyper-Hermitian quaternionic Kähler manifold. We prove that every locallysymmetric hyper-Hermitian quaternionic Kähler manifold is locally isometricto the quaternionic projective space or to the quaternionic hyperbolic space.We describe locally the hyper-Hermitian quaternionic Kähler manifolds withclosed Lee form and show that the only complete simply connected suchmanifold is the quaternionic hyperbolic space.     

Compact Kähler manifolds with elliptic homotopy type

Simply connected compact Kähler manifolds of dimension up to three with elliptic homotopy type are characterized in terms of their Hodge diamonds. For surfaces there are only two possibilities, namely h1,1?2 with hp,q=0 for p≠q. For threefolds, there are three possibilities, namely h1,1?3 with hp,q=0 for p≠q. This characterization in terms of the Hodge diamonds is applied to explicitly classify the simply connected Kähler surfaces and Fano threefolds with elliptic homotopy type.     

The Totally Geodesic Coisotropic Submanifolds in Kähler Manifolds

In this paper, we consider the coisotropic submanifolds in a Kähler manifold of nonnegative holomorphic curvature. We prove an intersection theorem for compact totally geodesic coisotropic submanifolds and discuss some topological obstructions for the existence of such submanifolds. Our results apply to Lagrangian submanifolds and real hypersurfaces since the class of coisotropic submanifolds includes them. As an application, we give a fixed-point theorem for compact Kähler manifolds with positive holomorphic curvature. Also, our results can be further extended to nearly Kähler manifolds.     

Complete Minimal Kähler Surfaces in R6

We construct the first examples of minimal Kähler surfaces in R⁶ which are irreducible and neither holomorphic nor complex ruled.     

Local Rigidity of Certain Classes of Almost Kähler 4-Manifolds

We show that any non-Kähler, almost Kähler 4-manifoldfor which both the Ricci and the Weyl curvatures have the same algebraic symmetries as they have for a Kähler metric is locally isometric to the (only)proper 3-symmetric four-dimensional space.     

Nonsymmetric Osserman indefinite Kähler manifolds

The authors prove the existence of Osserman manifolds with indefinite Kähler metric of nonnegative or nonpositive holomorphic sectional curvature which are not locally symmetric.

     

On energy functionals, Kähler-Einstein metrics, and the Moser-Trudinger-Onofri neighborhood

We prove that the existence of a Kähler-Einstein metric on a Fano manifold is equivalent to the properness of the energy functionals defined by Bando, Chen, Ding, Mabuchi and Tian on the set of Kähler metrics with positive Ricci curvature. We also prove that these energy functionals are bounded from below on this set if and only if one of them is. This answers two questions raised by X.-X. Chen. As an application, we obtain a new proof of the classical Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality on the two-sphere, as well as describe a canonical enlargement of the space of Kähler potentials on which this inequality holds on higher-dimensional Fano Kähler-Einstein manifolds.     

Stratified Kähler structures on adjoint quotients

Given a compact Lie group, endowed with a bi-invariant Riemannian metric, its complexification inherits a Kähler structure having twice the kinetic energy of the metric as its potential, and Kähler reduction with reference to the adjoint action yields a stratified Kähler structure on the resulting adjoint quotient. Exploiting classical invariant theory, in particular bisymmetric functions and variants thereof, we explore the singular Poisson-Kähler geometry of this quotient. Among other things we prove that, for various compact groups, the real coordinate ring of the adjoint quotient is generated, as a Poisson algebra, by the real and imaginary parts of the fundamental characters. We also show that singular Kähler quantization of the geodesic flow on the reduced level yields the irreducible algebraic characters of the complexified group.     

Almost Kähler A-Structures on Twistor Bundles

The aim of this paper is to give examples of compact almost Kähler A-manifolds.     

A note on almost Kähler and nearly Kähler submersions

In this paper the integrability of the horizontal distribution of an almost-Kähler or a nearly-Kähler submersion is studied and curvature properties of such submersions are investigated.     

On a kähler version of cheeger-gromoll-perelman's soul theorem

In this note, we will prove a Kähler version of Cheeger-Gromoll-Perelman's soul theorem, only assuming the sectional curvature is nonnegative and bisectional curvature is positive at one point.