On cohomological and formal properties of strong Kähler with torsion and astheno-Kähler metrics (Q6115070)

A Hermitian metric \(g\) on a complex manifold of complex dimension \(n\) is called strong Kähler with torsion (shortly, SKT) or pluriclosed if its fundamental form \(F\) satisfies the condition \(\partial \overline \partial F = 0\), and astheno-Kähler if \(\partial \overline \partial F^{n -2} = 0\). In the first part of the paper the authors study the behaviour of blow-up of compact complex manifolds endowed with astheno-Kähler metrics, satisfying certain extra differential conditions. They first construct families of nilmanifolds admitting an invariant astheno-Kähler metric and then study the behaviour of the complex blow-up of such manifolds. In particular, they show that the existence of an astheno-Kähler metric satisfying the extra differential condition \(\partial \overline \partial F^{n-2} = 0, \partial \overline \partial F^{n-3 }= 0\) is not preserved by blow-up. In the second part of the paper they study the interplay between SKT metrics and geometrically-Bott-Chern-formal metrics. In particular, they consider 6-dimensional nilmanifolds with an invariant complex structure admitting an invariant SKT metric and they prove that 6-dimensional SKT nilmanifolds are geometrically-Bott-Chern-formal. Finally, they show that on a compact complex manifold the existence of an SKT metric does not imply the existence of geometrically-Bott-Chern-formal metrics, providing a non vanishing Aeppli-Bott-Chern-Massey product for the product of two copies of primary Kodaira surface, Inoue surface of type \(S_M\) and for the product of a Kodaira surface with an Inoue surface.