Integrable almost complex structures in principal bundles and holomorphic curves (Q1949796)

The paper concerns invariant almost complex structures \(J\) naturally defined in a class of principal fibre bundles \(P\), where the choice of a connection determines equivariant isomorphisms between vertical and horizontal tangent bundles of the total space. The author characterizes the integrability of such almost complex structures, obtaining a system of gauge invariant coupled first-order partial differential equations. When \(P\) is the oriented orthonormal frame bundle of a 3-dimensional manifold \(M\), he proves that the integrability conditions are satisfied iff \(M\) is hyperbolic. The author also shows that in general there is an equivalence between complex integrability of J-holomorphic vector fields on the bundle and the geodesic completeness of the base manifold, assuming that the first of the integrability conditions holds.