Compact complex manifolds: an extension of Meersseman's and López de Medrano-Verjovsky's construction (Q5944543)

The game is to construct nice classes of compact complex manifolds without any symplectic structure. In this paper the author wins at this game and gives strong generalizations of \textit{S. López de Medrano} and \textit{A. Verjovsky} [Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat., Nova Ser. 28, No. 2, 253-269 (1997; Zbl 0901.53021)] and of \textit{L. Meersseman} [A new geometric construction of compact complex manifolds in any dimension, Math. Ann. 317, 79-115 (2000; Zbl 0958.32013)]. The manifolds are obtained as quotient of a large open subset of \(\mathbb{C}^n\) by a free action of the abelian group \(\mathbb{C}^m\times \mathbb{C}^*\). The author gives a precise description of when one of these actions gives a compact smooth quotient.