Non-Kähler manifolds and GIT-quotients (Q2458867)

\textit{S. López de Medrano} and \textit{Verjovaky} discovered in 1997 a way to construct many compact complex manifolds [Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat., Nova Sér. 28, No.~2, 253--269 (1997; Zbl 0901.53021)]. Their construction was generalized by \textit{L. Meersseman} (Math. Ann. 317, 79--115 (2000; Zbl 0958.32013)], yielding a large family of non-Kähler compact manifolds (called LVM-manifolds); they are (deformations of) a very natural generalization of Calabi-Eckmann manifolds. F. Besio produced a family of quotient manifolds, containing the LVM-manifolds, that the present authors called LVMB-manifolds. In 2004, \textit{L. Meersseman} and \textit{A. Verjovaky} investigated a link between LMV-manifolds and Mumford's Geometric Invariant Theory (Mumford's GIT) (see [J. Reine Angew. Math. 572, 57--96 (2004; Zbl 1070.14047)]). The authors prove that the extension from LMV-manifolds to LVMB-manifolds parallels exactly the extension from Mumford's GIT to the generalized GIT of \textit{A. Białnicki-Birula} and \textit{J. Święcicka}, which allows for non-projective quotients (see [Transform. Groups 1, No.~3, 153--185 (1996; Zbl 0912.14016) and Colloq. Math. 77, No.~1, 97--114 (1998; Zbl 0947.14027)]). They give a simple construction of LVMB-manifolds from the GIT point of view and prove that some of them are Seifert-fibered over a complete simplicial toric variety \(X\). In most cases \(X\) is an algebraic reduction of \(N\), and if \(X\) is projective then \(N\) is actually an LVM-manifold. The authors produce examples of LVMB-manifolds that are not biholomorphic to any LVM-manifold.