On strongly Gauduchon metrics of compact complex manifolds (Q493992)

A hermitian metric \(\omega\) on a (compact) complex manifold \(X\) of dimension \(n\) is said to be \textit{strongly Gauduchon} (shortened as sG) if \(\partial \omega^{n-1}\) is \(\bar{\partial}\)-exact. This is a strengthening of the classical observation of \textit{P. Gauduchon} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. A 285, 387--390 (1977; Zbl 0362.53024)] that a compact complex manifold always admits a hermitian metric whose \((n-1)^{\mathrm{th}}\) power is \(\partial{\bar\partial}\)-closed. A compact complex manifold admitting a sG metric is unsurprisingly called an sG manifold. It has been shown in [\textit{D. Popovici}, J. Geom. Anal. 23, No. 2, 653--659 (2013; Zbl 1277.53074)] that being sG is invariant under bimeromorphisms, and the article under review focuses on the behaviour of the sG cone under such a modification. The sG cone \(s\mathcal{G}(X)\) is the cone in \(H^{2n-2}(X,\mathbb{R})\) generated by the classes associated with sG metrics. It is indeed easy to see that an sG metric is equivalent to the data of a real \((2n-2)\)-form \(\Omega\) whose \((n-1,n-1)\) component is positive. The main result of this article is the following one. { Theorem.} Let \(\mu:Y\longrightarrow X\) be a proper modification between compact complex manifolds. Then the sG cones are related by: \(\mu_*s\mathcal{G}(Y)=s\mathcal{G}(X)\). The main tool to study this kind of questions is the duality between forms and currents, and a characterization of the dual of \(s\mathcal{G}(X)\) in terms of \((1,1)\) closed positive currents is established in passing (Proposition 3.1). The last part of the paper is devoted to studying the behaviour under deformations of the complex structure (the sG property is invariant under small deformations, and the sG cone is invariant under parallel transport with respect to the Gauss-Manin connection) and the total space of a fibration onto a curve whose smooth fibers are assumed to be sG.