A construction of compact pseudo-Kähler solvmanifolds with no Kähler structures (Q819268)

An important problem in symplectic geometry is to obtain topological invariants. In the last two decades there appeared a lot of examples of symplectic manifolds with no Kähler structure. The Betti numbers of a compact Kähler manifold enjoy very nice relations, but we need more deeper properties to distinguish them from symplectic manifolds. Two results are very useful: (1) The minimal model of a compact Kähler manifold is formal, and (2) a compact Kähler manifold has the Hard Lefschetz property. Using these properties many authors have obtained families of examples of symplectic nilmanifols and solvmanifolds with no Kähler structures. This problem is closely related with a conjecture by Benson and Gordon: Benson-Gordon Conjecture: Let \(G\) be a simply-connected completely solvable Lie group and \(\Gamma\) a lattice of \(G\). Then \(G/\Gamma\) has a Kähler structure if and only if it is a torus. In the present paper the author investigates the Hard Lefschetz property on certain compact symplectic solvmanifolds and constructs compact pseudo-Kähler solvmanifolds which do not have the Hard Lefschetz property. The reviewer wants to call the attention to a recent paper by \textit{Oliver Baues} and \textit{Vicente Cortés} [Aspherical Kähler manifolds with solvable fundamental group, Math.DG/0601616]; a consequence of their results is a proof of the Benson-Gordon conjecture.