On Bott-Chern cohomology of compact complex surfaces (Q5964957)

On a compact Kähler manifold every \(d\)-closed form that is either \(d\)-, \(\partial\)- or \(\bar{\partial}\)-exact is \(\partial \bar{\partial}\)-exact (the \(\partial \bar{\partial}\) lemma). To measure the failure of this lemma on non-Kähler manifolds and to study Bott-Chern secondary characteristic classes, the so-called Bott-Chern \big(\(\frac{\text{ker\,} \partial \,\cap\, \text{ker\,} \overline \partial}{\text{Im\,} \partial \overline\partial}\)\big) and Aeppli \big(\(\frac{\text{ker\,}\partial \overline\partial}{\text{Im\,} \partial +\text{Im\,} \overline\partial}\)\big) cohomologies are introduced. Two of the authors [\textit{D. Angella} and \textit{A. Tomassini}, Invent. Math. 192, No. 1, 71--81 (2013; Zbl 1271.32011)] proved the so-called Frölicher inequality \(\sum\big( h^{p,q}_{BC} + h^{p,q}_A \Big)\geq 2 h^k _{DR}\) which motivates the definition of the positive integers \(\Delta ^k =\sum\big( h^{p,q}_{BC} + h^{p,q}_A\big) - 2 h^k _{DR}\) which for compact complex surfaces measure the extent of non-Kählerness. Using Hodge theory and the Frölicher spectral sequence, the authors prove (Theorem 1.1) that, for compact complex surfaces, \(\Delta ^1 =0\), and that the identity map from \(H^{2,1}_{BC}\) to \(H^{2,1}_{\bar{\partial}}\) is injective. Using the theory of class-VII surfaces, they also compute the Bott-Chern Betti numbers (Theorem 1.2). Moreover, they show that, for surfaces diffeomorphic to solvmanifolds (Theorems 5.1 and 5.2), the invariant differential forms are enough to represent the Bott-Chern cohomology and compute the cohomology groups.