Deformations and diffeomorphism types of Hopf manifolds (Q1320952)

A classical Hopf manifold is a complex structure on \(S^ 1 \times S^{2n - 1}\). The simplest example (and sometimes these are called classical) is obtained by factoring \(\mathbb{C}^ n \backslash \{0\}\) under the action of an infinite cyclic group generated by \(z \mapsto \mu z\) for some nonzero complex number \(\mu\) of modulus less than one. The general example is obtained by factoring \(\mathbb{C}^ n \backslash \{0\}\) by any contraction (an automorphism of \(\mathbb{C}^ n\) fixing the origin and whose derivative at the origin has eigenvalues of modules less than one). The Hopf manifolds considered by the author are generalized in the sense that they can be any complex \(n\)-manifold with \(\mathbb{C}^ n \backslash \{0\}\) as universal cover. One might expect that this might allow finite quotients of \(S^ n\) as fibres of a fibre bundle over \(S^ 1\), and the author shows that, up to diffeomorphism, this is indeed the case. Firstly he shows that the covering transformation group can be expressed as a semidirect product of an infinite cyclic group generated by a contraction and a finite group \(H\) which may be realised as a subgroup of the unitary group \(U(n)\) and which acts freely on \(S^{2n - 1}\). Then by deforming the given complex structure, of course preserving the diffeomorphism type, he realises an arbitrary generalised Hopf manifold as a fibre bundle over \(S^ 1\) constructed from a representation of finite order \(\rho : \pi_ 1 (S^ 1) \to N_{v(n)} (H)\). The typical fibre is \(S^{2n - 1}/H\). This is a pleasing result obtained by short and direct proofs.