Transverse Kähler holonomy in Sasaki geometry and \(\mathcal{S}\)-stability (Q2064047)

In this paper the authors study the stability of transverse Kähler holonomy groups in a Sasakian manifold under transverse holomorphic deformations of the Reeb foliation. A Sasakian structure \(\mathcal{S}\) is said to be \(\mathcal{S}\)-stable (or \(\mathcal{S}\)-rigid) if every sufficiently small transverse Kählerian deformation of it remains Sasakian. The main result of this paper states that a Sasakian manifold with vanishing first Betti number and such that the basic Hodge numbers \(h_B^{0,2}=h_B^{2,0}=0\) is \(\mathcal{S}\)-stable. On the other hand, the authors show that a Sasakian manifold with vanishing first Betti number and a compatible irreducible transverse hyperkähler structure is unstable.