The anomaly flow on nilmanifolds (Q1979470)

In the present article, the authors study the so-called anomaly flow on 2-step nilmanifolds with respect to any Hermitian connection in the Gauduchon line. This is a coupled flow of a pair of Hermitian metrics defined on a 3-dimensional complex manifold equipped with a (3,0) form and on the fibers of a holomorphic vector bundle over the mentioned complex manifold, respectively. In particular, they characterize the solutions for a simplified version of the anomaly flow under the hypothesis that the base space is a 2-step nilmanifold of real dimension 6 with the first Betti number greater or equal than 4. Moreover, they study its convergence and they prove that two properties are preserved under the flow. Namely, the balanced condition and the diagonal character of the metrics.