Quasi-Kähler manifolds with trivial Chern holonomy (Q431247)

Almost Hermitian manifolds are smooth manifolds equipped with a possibly non-integrable \(\mathrm{U}(n)\)-structure \((g,J)\). They are generalizations of Kähler manifolds (\(\nabla J \) may not vanish), so it is interesting to study connections with torsion preserving \(g\) and \(J\), which are called Hermitian. Almost Hermitian manifolds have a canonical connection characterized by being the unique Hermitian connection whose torsion \((1,1)\)-component vanishes (which coincides with the Chern connection in the complex case). The paper focuses on quasi-Kähler manifolds: they are defined as almost Hermitian manifolds whose Kähler form \(\omega\) satisfies \(\bar{\partial} \omega=0\). If the holonomy of its canonical connection is trivial, the manifold is called quasi-Kähler Chern-flat. The authors characterize these manifolds in the compact case and prove the following theorem: A compact almost complex manifold \((M,J)\) is quasi-Kähler Chern-flat if and only if it is isomorphic to a 2-step nilpotent nilmanifold equipped with a left-invariant almost complex structure whose almost complex Lie algebra (\(\mathfrak{g},J)\) satisfies: \[ [\mathfrak{g}^{1,0},\mathfrak{g}^{0,1}]=0, \quad [\mathfrak{g}^{1,0},\mathfrak{g}^{1,0}]\subseteq \mathfrak{g}^{0,1} \] where \(\mathfrak{g}\otimes \mathbb{C}=\mathfrak{g}^{1,0}\otimes \mathfrak{g}^{0,1}\) is the splitting in terms of eigenspaces of \(J\). The authors also study the problem of taming an almost complex structure admitting a compatible quasi-Kähler Chern-flat metric with a symplectic form. Specifically, they prove: Let \((M,\omega)\) be a compact symplectic manifold. Assume that there exists an almost complex structure on \(M\) tamed by \(\omega\) such that the pair \((\omega, J)\) induces a quasi-Kähler Chern-flat metric \(g\). Then \((M,J,\omega)\) is a Kähler torus.