Almost complex structures on quaternion-Kähler manifolds and inner symmetric spaces

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: We prove that compact quaternionic-K"ahler manifolds of positive scalar curvature admit no almost complex structure, even in the weak sense, except for the complex Grassmannians

G r_{2} (C^{n + 2})

. We also prove that irreducible inner symmetric spaces

M^{4 n}

of compact type are not weakly complex, except for spheres and Hermitian symmetric spaces.

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The first main result of the paper says: A compact quaternionic-Kähler manifold with a positive scalar curvature, which is not isometric to the complex Grassmannian \(Gr_2({\mathbb C}^{n+2})\), has no weak almost complex structure, in the sense that the tangent bundle \(TM\) is not stably isomorphic to a complex vector bundle. A symmetric space \(G/H\) is said to be inner if \(G\) and \(H\) are of equal rank. A second result says: A \(4n\)-dimensional simply connected irreducible inner symmetric space of compact type is weakly complex if and only if it is a sphere or a Hermitian symmetric space. The third result states: An irreducible component of a simply connected inner symmetric space of compact type admitting a weak almost complex structure is isomorphic to an even-dimensional sphere or to a Hermitian symmetric space or (conceivably) to the exceptional symmetric space \(\frac{E_7}{(SU(8)/{\mathbb Z}_2)}\).

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