Samelson complex structures for the tangent Lie group (Q6878000)

It was shown by \textit{H. Samelson} [Port. Math. 12, 129--132 (1953; Zbl 0052.02405)] (and independently by \textit{H.-C. Wang} [Am. J. Math. 76, 1--32 (1954; Zbl 0055.16603)] in the more general setting of homogenenous manifolds) that every even-dimensional compact Lie group always admits a left-invariant integrable almost complex structure. The almost complex structure is obtained by exploiting the properties of the root space decomposition of an even-dimensional compact Lie group. \N\NThe author asks whether the Samelson construction can be adapted to certain classes of non-compact Lie groups. Taking inspiration from Samelson's construction for even-dimensional compact Lie groups, the author shows that for any compact Lie group \(G\) (odd- or even-dimensional), the tangent bundle \(TG\) admits a left-invariant integrable almost complex structure, where the Lie group structure on \(TG\) is the natural one induced from \(G\). \N\NThe paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. Section 2 deals with a brief review of the tangent Lie group and the root space decomposition of a compact Lie group. In Section 3, the author shows that the tangent Lie group of any compact Lie group (odd- or even-dimensional) always admits a left-invariant integrable almost complex structure. Section 4 is devoted to some examples.