Kähler structures on spin 6-manifolds (Q1741825)

A classical question in complex algebraic geometry asks which smooth manifolds carry a complex projective structure or a Kähler structure and how many there are. In this paper, the authors study both questions in the case where the underlying smooth manifold is a spin 6-manifold, which means that the second Stiefel-Whitney class vanishes. Given a simply connected Kähler threefold \(X\) with spin structure and trivial \(H^3(X, \mathbb{Z})\), the authors show that \(X\) admits infinitely many pairwise non-homeomorphic closed spin 6-manifolds with the same oriented homotopy type as \(X\), but which are not homeomorphic to a Kähler manifold. Moreover, they show that there are only finitely many deformation types of smooth complex projective spin threefolds of general type and with bounded Betti numbers. Finally, they show that the Chern numbers of a smooth compact Kähler threefold with spin structure are determined up to finite ambiguity by the isomorphism type of the integral cohomology ring and the first Pontryagin class.