Compact generalized Hopf and cosymplectic solvmanifolds and the Heisenberg group \(H(n,1)\) (Q1380504)

An almost Hermitian manifold is said to be locally conformal Kähler (l.c.K.) if its metric is conformally related to a Kähler metric in some neighbourhood of every point of \(M\). For an l.c.K. manifold \(M\), the Lee 1-form \(\omega\) is closed. If, moreover, \(\omega\) is parallel and \(\omega\neq 0\), then \(M\) is called a generalized Hopf (g.H.) manifold. A compact g.H. manifold cannot admit Kähler structures. On the other hand, an almost contact metric structure \((\varphi, \xi,\eta,h)\) on a manifold \(N\) with fundamental 2 form \(\Phi\) is said to be: Sasakian if \([\varphi,\varphi] +2d\eta \otimes\xi =0\) and \(d\eta= \Phi\); cosymplectic if \([\varphi, \varphi] =0\), \(d\eta =0\) and \(d\Phi=0\). Sasakian and cosymplectic manifolds are the natural odd-dimensional counterparts to Kähler manifolds. The product of a compact Sasakian manifold with the circle \(S^1\) is a compact g.H. manifold. In particular, the products \(S^{2n-1} \times S^1\) and \(N(n-1,1)\times S^1\) are compact g.H. manifolds, where \(S^{2n-1}\) is the \((2n-1)\)-dimensional unit sphere, and \(N(n-1,1)\) is a compact quotient of the generalized Heisenberg group \(H(n,1)\) by a discrete subgroup. In this paper, the authors prove the following Theorem 2.1: Let \((N,\varphi, \xi,\eta,h)\) be a cosymplectic manifold with integral fundamental 2-form \(\Phi\) and let \(\pi:M\to N\) be the principal circle bundle over \(N\) corresponding to \([\Phi]\in H^2(N,\mathbb{Z})\). Then \(M\) is a g.H. manifold. Using this result, they obtain new and interesting examples of compact generalized Hopf manifolds. Moreover, they give nice descriptions of these examples as compact solvmanifolds and as suspensions with fibre a compact quotient of the group \(H(n,1)\) by a discrete subgroup.