On Nearly-Kähler Geometry

We consider complete nearly-Kähler manifolds with a canonicalHermitian connection. We prove some metric properties of strict nearly-Kähler manifolds and give a sufficient condition for the reducibility of the canonical Hermitian connection. A holonomic condition for a nearly-Kähler manifold to be a twistor space over a quaternionic-Kähler manifold is given. This enables us to give classification results in 10-dimensions.     

On isometries of Kähler manifolds

Summary We show that an isometry between not locally hyperk?hler, locally irreducible K?hler manifolds is either holomorphic or antiholomorphic.     

Szegö kernel, regular quantizations and spherical CR-structures

We compute the Szegö kernel of the unit circle bundle of a negative line bundle dual to a regular quantum line bundle over a compact Kähler manifold. As a corollary we provide an infinite family of smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex domains on complex manifolds (disk bundles over homogeneous Hodge manifolds) for which the log-terms in the Fefferman expansion of the Szegö kernel vanish and which are not locally CR-equivalent to the sphere. We also give a proof of the fact that, for homogeneous Hodge manifolds, the existence of a locally spherical CR-structure on the unit circle bundle alone implies that the manifold is biholomorphic to a projective space. Our results generalize those obtained by Engli? (Math Z 264(4):901–912, 2010) for Hermitian symmetric spaces of compact type.     

Twistorial examples of almost Hermitian manifolds with Hermitian Ricci tensor

We construct new twistorial examples of non-Kähler almost Hermitian manifolds with Hermitian Ricci tensor by means of a natural almost Hermitian structures on the twistor space of an almost Hermitian four manifold.     

Harmonic and holomorphic 1-forms on compact balanced Hermitian manifolds

On compact balanced Hermitian manifolds we obtain obstructions to the existence of harmonic 1-forms, ∂-harmonic (1,0)-forms and holomorphic (1,0)-forms in terms of the Ricci tensors with respect to the Riemannian curvature and the Hermitian curvature. Necessary and sufficient conditions the (1,0)-part of a harmonic 1-form to be holomorphic and vice versa, a real 1-form with a holomorphic (1,0)-part to be harmonic are found. The vanishing of the first Dolbeault cohomology groups of the twistor space of a compact irreducible hyper-Kähler manifold is shown.     

Homogeneous nearly K?hler manifolds

The structure of nearly K?hler manifolds was studied by Gray in several articles, mainly in Gray (Math Ann 223:233?C248, 1976). More recently, a relevant progress on the subject has been done by Nagy. Among other results, he proved that a complete strict nearly K?hler manifold is locally a Riemannian product of homogeneous nearly K?hler spaces, twistor spaces over quaternionic K?hler manifolds and six-dimensional (6D) nearly K?hler manifolds, where the homogeneous nearly K?hler factors are also 3-symmetric spaces. In the present article, we show some further properties relative to the structure of nearly K?hler manifolds and, using the lists of 3-symmetric spaces given by Wolf and Gray, we display the exhaustive list of irreducible simply connected homogeneous strict nearly K?hler manifolds. For such manifolds, we give details relative to the intrinsic torsion and the Riemannian curvature.     

Hermitian-Einstein metrics for vector bundles on complete Kähler manifolds

In this paper, we prove the existence of Hermitian-Einstein metrics for holomorphic vector bundles on a class of complete Kähler manifolds which include Hermitian symmetric spaces of noncompact type without Euclidean factor, strictly pseudoconvex domains with Bergman metrics and the universal cover of Gromov hyperbolic manifolds etc. We also solve the Dirichlet problem at infinity for the Hermitian-Einstein equations on holomorphic vector bundles over strictly pseudoconvex domains.

     

On the Twistor Spaces of Almost Hermitian Manifolds

We study Grassmannian bundles G_k(M) of analytical 2k-planes over an almost Hermitian manifold M²ⁿ, from the point of view of the generalized twistor spaces of [13], and with the method of the moving frame [9]. G₁(M⁴) is the classical twistor space. We find four distinguished almost Hermitian structures, one of them being that of [13], and discuss their integrability and Kählerianity. For n=2, we compute the corresponding Hermitian connections, and derive consequences about the corresponding first Chern classes.     

Twistor spaces of hypercomplex manifolds are balanced

A hypercomplex structure on a differentiable manifold consists of three integrable almost complex structures that satisfy quaternionic relations. If, in addition, there exists a metric on the manifold which is Hermitian with respect to the three structures, and such that the corresponding Hermitian forms are closed, the manifold is said to be hyperkähler. In the paper “Non-Hermitian Yang–Mills connections” [13], Kaledin and Verbitsky proved that the twistor space of a hyperkähler manifold admits a balanced metric; these were first studied in the article “On the existence of special metrics in complex geometry” [17] by Michelsohn. In the present article, we review the proof of this result and then generalize it and show that twistor spaces of general compact hypercomplex manifolds are balanced.     

On the structure of nearly pseudo-K?hler manifolds

Firstly we give a condition to split off the K?hler factor from a nearly pseudo-K?hler manifold and apply this to get a structure result in dimension 8. Secondly we extend the construction of nearly K?hler manifolds from twistor spaces to negatively curved quaternionic K?hler manifolds and para-quaternionic K?hler manifolds. The class of nearly pseudo-K?hler manifolds obtained from this construction is characterized by a holonomic condition. The combination of these results enables us to give a classification result in (real) dimension 10. Moreover, we show that a strict nearly pseudo-K?hler six-manifold is Einstein.     

K?hler–Einstein metrics on strictly pseudoconvex domains

Extending the results of Cheng and Yau it is shown that a strictly pseudoconvex domain ${M\subset X}$ in a complex manifold carries a complete K?hler–Einstein metric if and only if its canonical bundle is positive, i.e. admits an Hermitian connection with positive curvature. We consider the restricted case in which the CR structure on ${\partial M}$ is normal. In this case M must be a domain in a resolution of the Sasaki cone over ${\partial M}$ . We give a condition on a normal CR manifold which it cannot satisfy if it is a CR infinity of a K?hler–Einstein manifold. We are able to mostly determine those normal CR three-manifolds which can be CR infinities. We give many examples of K?hler–Einstein strictly pseudoconvex manifolds on bundles and resolutions. In particular, the tubular neighborhood of the zero section of every negative holomorphic vector bundle on a compact complex manifold whose total space satisfies c ₁?<?0 admits a complete K?hler–Einstein metric.     

Remarks on derived equivalences of Ricci-flat manifolds

After a finite étale cover, any Ricci-flat Kähler manifold decomposes into a product of complex tori, irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds, and Calabi–Yau manifolds. We present results indicating that this decomposition is an invariant of the derived category. The main idea to distinguish the derived category of an irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifold from that of a Calabi–Yau manifold is that point sheaves do not deform in certain (non-commutative) deformations of the former, whereas they do for the latter. On the way, we prove a conjecture of C?ld?raru on the module structure of the Hochschild–Kostant–Rosenberg isomorphism for manifolds with trivial canonical bundle as a direct consequence of recent work by Calaque, van den Bergh, and Ramadoss.     

Transgression on hyperkähler manifolds and generalized higher torsion forms

We propose a generalization of the Hodge dd_c-lemma to the case of hyperk?hler manifolds. As an application we derive a global construction of the fourth order transgression of the Chern character forms of hyperholomorphic bundles over compact hyperk?hler manifolds. In Section 3 we consider the fourth order transgression for the infinite-dimensional bundle arising from local families of hyperk?hler manifolds. We propose a local construction of the fourth order transgression of the Chern character form. We derive an explicit expression for the arising hypertorsion differential form. Its zero-degree part may be expressed in terms of the Laplace operators defined on the fibres of the local family.     

Killing fields of holomorphic Cartan geometries

We study local automorphisms of holomorphic Cartan geometries. This leads to classification results for compact complex manifolds admitting holomorphic Cartan geometries. We prove that a compact Kähler Calabi–Yau manifold bearing a holomorphic Cartan geometry of algebraic type admits a finite unramified cover which is a complex torus.     

Regularity of maps between Sobolev spaces

In this paper, we introduce the twistor space of a Riemannian manifold with an even Clifford structure. This notion generalizes the twistor space of quaternion-Hermitian manifolds and weak-\(\mathrm {Spin}(9)\) structures. We also construct almost complex structures on the twistor space for parallel even Clifford structures and check their integrability. Moreover, we prove that in some cases one can give Kähler and nearly Kähler metrics to these spaces.     

On the structure of nearly pseudo-Kähler manifolds

Firstly we give a condition to split off the Kähler factor from a nearly pseudo-Kähler manifold and apply this to get a structure result in dimension 8. Secondly we extend the construction of nearly Kähler manifolds from twistor spaces to negatively curved quaternionic Kähler manifolds and para-quaternionic Kähler manifolds. The class of nearly pseudo-Kähler manifolds obtained from this construction is characterized by a holonomic condition. The combination of these results enables us to give a classification result in (real) dimension 10. Moreover, we show that a strict nearly pseudo-Kähler six-manifold is Einstein.     

Cohomology of compact hyperkähler manifolds and its applications

We announce the structure theorem for theH ²(M)-generated part of cohomology of a compact hyperkähler manifold. This computation uses an action of the Lie algebra so(4,n–2) wheren=dimH ²(M) on the total cohomology space ofM. We also prove that every two points of the connected component of the moduli space of holomorphically symplectic manifolds can be connected with so-called twistor lines — projective lines holomorphically embedded in the moduli space and corresponding to the hyperkähler structures. This has interesting implications for the geometry of compact hyperkähler manifolds and of holomorphic vector bundles over such manifolds.     

On the -equation¶over pseudoconvex Kähler manifolds

The Picard variety Pic⁰(? ⁿ ) of a complex n-dimensional torus? ⁿ is the group of all holomorphic equivalence classes of topologically trivial holomorphic (principal) line bundles on ? ⁿ . The total space of a topologically trivial holomorphic (principal) line bundle on a compact K?hler manifold is weakly pseudoconvex. Thus we can regard Pic⁰(? ⁿ ) as a family of weakly pseudoconvex K?hler manifolds. We consider a problem whether the Kodaira's -Lemma holds on a total space of holomorphic line bundle belonging to Pic⁰(? ⁿ ). We get a criterion for this problem using a dynamical system of translations on Pic⁰(? ⁿ ). We also discuss the problem whether the -Lemma holds on strongly pseudoconvex K?hler manifolds or not. Using the result of ColColţoiu, we find a 1-convex complete K?hler manifold on which the -Lemma does not hold. Received: 11 June 1999 / Revised version: 22 November 1999     

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.