Invariant almost complex geometry on flag manifolds: geometric formality and Chern numbers

DOI10.1007/S10231-016-0568-5MaRDI QIDQ509570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lino Grama, Caio J. C. Negreiros, Ailton R. Oliveira

Publication date 17 February 2017

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08741

zbMATH Keywords

generalized flag manifoldsgeometric formalityinvariant almost complex geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: In the first part of this paper we study geometric formality for generalized flag manifolds, including full flag manifolds of exceptional Lie groups. In the second part we deal with the problem of the classification of invariant almost complex structures on generalized flag manifolds using topological methods.

Review text

In the first part of the paper under review, the authors study geometric formality for several generalized flag manifolds, including full flag manifolds of exceptional Lie groups. Recall that a Riemannian metric is called formal if every wedge product of harmonic forms is harmonic. A smooth manifold is called geometrically formal if it admits a formal Riemannian metric. One remarkable result in this direction is the following: For a connected compact Lie group and a maximal torus \(T\) in \(G\), the full flag manifold \(G/T\) is not geometrically formal. The second part of the paper is devoted to the problem of the classification of invariant almost complex structures on generalized flag manifolds using topological methods. The authors find various examples of flag manifolds with two, three, and four invariant almost complex structures, up to conjugation and equivalence. In order to distinguish non-equivalent almost complex structures, the corresponding Chern numbers are used.

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Cited in

(8)

• Chern numbers and the geometry of partial flag manifolds
• Invariant almost complex structures on real flag manifolds
• On the stability of invariant almost complex structures on flag manifolds
• Invariant generalized almost complex structures on real flag manifolds
• Invariant generalized complex structures on flag manifolds
• The complex geometry of two exceptional flag manifolds
• Stably and almost complex structures on bounded flag manifolds
• On geometric formality of rationally elliptic manifolds in dimensions 6 and 7

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