Riemannian manifolds with a parallel field of complex planes

The purpose of this paper is to discuss Riemannian manifolds which admit a parallel field of complex planes, consisting of vectors of the form , where a,b are real orthogonal vectors of equal length. Using the Nirenberg Frobenius Theorem 12], it follows that these are reducible Riemannian manifolds, whose metric is locally a sum of a Kähler and of a Riemann metric, and we are calling thempartially Kähler manifolds.After a general presentation of these manifolds (including a general presentation of the complex integrable plane fields) we are discussing harmonic forms, Betti numbers, and Dolbeault cohomology. This discussion is based on a theorem of Chern 4], and it provides generalizations of the results of Goldberg 9], as well as some other new results.To Prof. R. Artzy on his 70th Birthday