Calculus and invariants on almost complex manifolds, including projective and conformal geometry

zbMATH Open1310.53024arXiv1208.0648MaRDI QIDQ405396FDOQ405396

Pawel Nurowski, Rod Gover

Publication date: 5 September 2014

Published in: Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a family of canonical connections and surrounding basic theory for almost complex manifolds that are equipped with an affine connection. This framework provides a uniform approach to treating a range of geometries. In particular we are able to construct an invariant and efficient calculus for conformal almost Hermitian geometries, and also for almost complex structures that are equipped with a projective structure. In the latter case we find a projectively invariant tensor the vanishing of which is necessary and sufficient for the existence of an almost complex connection compatible with the path structure. In both the conformal and projective setting we give torsion characterisations of the canonical connections and introduce certain interesting higher order invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0648

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zbMATH Keywords

almost Hermitian manifoldalmost complex manifoldalmost complex affine connectionconformal almost complex connectionconformal almost Hermitian manifoldprojective almost complex connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

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