A remark on the Bismut-Ricci form on 2-step nilmanifolds (Q1701513)

An Hermitian manifold is called SKT if its fundamental form is \(\partial\bar{\partial}\)-closed. The SKT condition can be described in terms of the Bismut connection by requiring that the torsion form is closed. In the present note the authors prove that on a 2-step nilpotent Lie group equipped with a left-invariant SKT structure, the \((1,1)\)-part of the Bismut-Ricci form is seminegative definite. As an application, they give a simplified proof of the non existence of invariant SKT static metrics on 2-step nilmanifolds and of the existence of a long-time solution to the pluriclosed flow in 2-step nilmanifolds.