Vertical-horizontal decomposition of Laplacians and cohomologies of manifolds with trivial tangent bundles (Q2183508)

A nilpotent frame of a smooth, compact \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(X\) is a trivialization of the cotangent bundle of \(X\) by a collection of \(n\) pointwise linearly independent \(1\)-forms \(\{ \sigma^1, \dots, \sigma^n \}\) satisfying \[ d\sigma^j = \sum_{k,l>j} A_{kl}^j \thinspace\sigma^k\wedge \sigma^l, \quad \forall \enspace1 \leq j \leq n,\] where the \(A_{kl}^j\) are real constants. Using a vertical-horizontal decomposition of the Laplacian on a manifold with a special foliation structure, the authors prove that, if \(X\) possesses a nilpotent frame, then every de Rham cohomology class of \(X\) can be represented by a real linear combination of wedge products of the \(1\)-forms in the frame. In addition to this, they prove an analogous result concerning the Dolbeault cohomology of compact complex manifolds that admit complex nilpotent frames. These results generalize work by \textit{K. Nomizu} [Ann. Math. (2) 59, 531--538 (1954; Zbl 0058.02202); \textit{L. A. Cordero} et al., Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 352, No. 12, 5405--5433 (2000; Zbl 0965.32026)] and \textit{S. Rollenske} [Springer Proc. Math. 8, 369--392 (2011; Zbl 1266.53066)].