Hermitian curvature flow on compact homogeneous spaces (Q2658977)

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Hermitian curvature flow on compact homogeneous spaces
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    Hermitian curvature flow on compact homogeneous spaces (English)
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    25 March 2021
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    Suppose \(M\) is a \(C\)-space, meaning that \(M\) is a closed simply connected homogeneous complex manifold. Then \(M\) is known to have the structure of a bundle over a flag manifold \(N\) with fiber a complex torus \(F\). The authors moreover assume that \(N\) is a product of irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces of complex dimension at lesast \(2\), and that none of the factors is a complex quadric. From this structure it follows that any invariant Hermitian metric \(h\) on \(M\) is specified by an arbitrary Hermitian metric \(h^F\) on the fiber together with an invariant Hermitian metric \(h^N\) on \(N\). In this context, the authors study a specific Hermition Curvature Flow, introduced by \textit{Y. Ustinovskiy} [Am. J. Math. 141, No. 6, 1751--1775 (2019; Zbl 1435.53072)]. Their main results are summarized in Theorem 4.4 and Proposition 4.5: Given any initial invariant Hermitian metric \((h_0^N, h_0^F)\) on \(M\), Ustinovskiy's flow has the following properties: 1. The solution \(h(t)\) has the form \((h^N(t), h^F(t))\), where \(h^N(t)\) only depends on \(h_0^N\). 2. \(h^N(t)\) exists on a domain of the form \((-\infty, T)\), while \(h(t)^F\) exists on a domain of the form \((-r,T)\). When \(t\rightarrow T\), \(N\) collapses to a product of Hermitian symmetric spaces, while \(h(t)\) converges to a positive semidefinite Hermitian bilinear form \(\hat{h}\). The distribution given by the kernel of \(\hat{h}\) is integral and the leaves are homogeneous. If the leaves are closed, then \(M\) Gromov-Hausdorff converges to a smooth homogeneous manifold with Riemannian metric. In addition to these results, they show that \(M\) admits a unique invariant Hermitian metric which is static for the flow. If \(h^N(t)\rightarrow 0\) as \(t\rightarrow T\), then \(h(t)\rightarrow 0\) as well, and the normalized flow with constant volume converges to this static metric.
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    Lie group actions
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    homogeneous complex manifolds
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    Hermitian curvature flow
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