Compact Kähler manifolds with elliptic homotopy type (Q973940)

From the homotopy-theoretic point of view, simply connected manifolds with elliptic homotopy type are an extension of the class of 1-connected homogeneous manifolds. In this work, the authors characterize connected compact Kähler manifolds of dimension up to three with elliptic homotopy type in terms of their Hodge diamonds. The results are proved by applying the Friedlander-Halperin bounds and the related properties of the rational homotopy of finite CW-complexes with elliptic homotopy type. The homotopy groups of a closed Kähler manifold (which is formal) may be determined by computing the Sullivan minimal model of its commutative differential graded algebra of global smooth differential forms. The Friedlander-Halperin bounds and the steps in the computation of Sullivan's minimal model impose bounds on the Betti numbers of manifolds with elliptic homotopy type. For surfaces, there are only two possibilities, namely \(h^{1,1}\leq 2\) with \(h^{p,q}=0\) for \(p\neq q\). For threefolds, there are three possibilities, namely, \(h^{1,1}\leq 3\) with \(h^{p,q}=0\) for \(p\neq q\). This characterization in terms of the Hodge diamonds is applied to obtain a classification of simply connected Kähler surfaces and Fano threefolds with elliptic homotopy type.