Neutral Calabi-Yau structures on Kodaira manifolds (Q1885624): Difference between revisions

The authors study some classes of solutions of the Einstein equations in dimension \(4n\) with signature \((2n,2n)\). These solutions are obtained by constructing neutral Calabi-Yau metrics fibered by Lagrangian tori. Let \(G\) be a simply connected real \(2\)-step nilpotent Lie group of dimension \(4n\), with center \(Z\) of dimension \(2n\). Assume that the Lie algebra \(\mathcal{G}\) has an integrable almost complex structure which preserves the center \(\mathcal{Z}\) of \(\mathcal{G}\). A Kodaira manifold \((M,I)\) is a compact quotient \(M=\Gamma \backslash G\) by a uniform discrete subgroup, endowed with the invariant complex structure \(I\) associated to the complex structure of \(\mathcal{G}\). A neutral Kähler manifold is a complex manifold \((M^{4n},I)\) with a neutral metric \(g\) (i.e. of signature \((2n,2n)\)) such that \(g(IX,IY)=g(X,Y)\) and \(I\) is parallel with respect to the Levi Civita connection \(\nabla\). Such a manifold is Calabi-Yau if there exists \(\Phi\in \Lambda^{2n,0}T^*M\) such that \(\Phi\neq 0\) and \(\nabla \Phi=0\). The authors show that any principal \(T^Z\)-bundle over \(T^{2n}\) admits a neutral Ricci flat metric and that Kodaira manifolds \(\Gamma \backslash G\) with a closed \(G\)-invariant non-degenerate \((1,1)\)-form admit \(T^Z\)-invariant neutral Calabi-Yau metrics with special Lagrangian tori. They present examples of \(8\)-dimensional Kodaira manifolds with neutral Calabi-Yau and hypersymplectic structures. Next they obtain the existence of neutral Calabi-Yau structures on compact quotients of cotangent bundles of some \(2\)-step nilpotent Lie groups \(G\). On the compact quotients \(T^*(H_3\times{\mathbb{R}})\) there exist families of neutral Calabi-Yau structures which contain also hypersymplectic structures.