Integrability theorems and conformally constant Chern scalar curvature metrics in almost Hermitian geometry (Q2214597)

The authors of the present manuscript examine the existence of the Hermitian metrics, on almost complex manifolds, of constant Chern scalar curvature in the conformal class of the initial Hermitian metric. In the case of an integrable almost complex structure this analogue of the Yamabe problem was studied by \textit{D. Angella} et al. [Math. Z. 295, No. 3--4, 1707--1722 (2020; Zbl 1446.53014)]. Different types of Ricci and scalar curvatures associated to the Chern connection of an almost Hermitian structure are discussed in Sections 1, 2 and 4. In particular the relations between the mentioned quantities and the formulas for them under conformal deformation are presented. The first original results, presented in Section 3, concern the situation when the different scalar curvatures associated to the Chern connection of the almost Hermitian structure are equal. Under an additional assumption on the structure or the dimension of the underlying almost complex manifold this turns out to happen only if the initial structure was already Kähler. The examination of the advocated almost Hermitian analogue of the Yamabe problem starts in Section 5. It is proved there that the problem can be solved provided we are in the situation corresponding to the non-positive case in the Kähler situation. As one may expect, the positive case is much more difficult and is not settled in the paper. In Section 6 the analysis in the positive case is curried for ruled manifolds.