On Strominger space forms

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Abstract: In this article, we propose the following conjecture: if the Strominger connection of a compact Hermitian manifold has constant non-zero holomorphic sectional curvature, then the Hermitian metric must be K"ahler. The main result of this article is to confirm the conjecture in dimension 2. We also verify the conjecture in higher dimensions in a couple of special situations.


This article is concerned with a Hermitian manifold \((M^n,g)\) and its three canonical connections associated with \(g\). Namely, the Levi-Civita connection \(\nabla\), the Chern connection \(\nabla^{\mathrm{c}}\) and the Strominger or Bismut connection \(\nabla^{\mathrm{s}}\). The authors give a new contribution to the understanding of the respective holomorphic sectional curvatures \(H(X)=R_{X\overline{X}X\overline{X}}/|X|^4\), \(H^{\mathrm{c}}(X)\) and \(H^{\mathrm{s}}(X)\), defined likewise with the respective curvatures of \(\nabla,\nabla^{\mathrm{c}},\nabla^{\mathrm{s}}\), where \(X\) is a non-zero \((1,0)\)-type tangent vector. For \(n>1\), these sectional curvatures are not necessarily pointwise constant. And being constant pointwise, does not imply they are constant on the manifold. Conjecturally, on the hypotheses that such \(H\) functions are a constant \(c\), the authors point towards the metric being Kähler in case \(c\neq0\) or being flat. In Theorem 1 it is proved that if \((M^2,g)\) is a compact Hermitian surface with \(H^{\mathrm{s}}(X)=f\), where \(f\) is a function on \(M^2\). Then either \(g\) is Kähler (in which case \(f\) is a constant and the surface is a complex space form), or \(M^2\) is an isosceles Hopf surface and \(g\) an admissible metric. An isosceles Hopf surface is a quotient \(\mathbb{C}^2\backslash\{0\}/\langle\phi\rangle\) with \(\phi(z_1,z_2)=(a_1z_1,a_2z_2)\) and \(0<|a_1|=|a_2|<1\). The paper describes the admissible metric even in higher dimensions.



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