Hard Lefschetz property for isometric flows

DOI10.1007/S00031-022-09744-6MaRDI QIDQ6152220zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors José Ignacio Royo Prieto, Martintxo Saralegi-Aranguren, Robert A. Wolak

Publication date 11 March 2024

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07441

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifolds hard Lefschetz property isometric flows Reeb flows Sasaki manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations generated by dynamical systems (37C86) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: The Hard Lefschetz Property (HLP) is an important property which has been studied in several categories of the symplectic world. For Sasakian manifolds, this duality is satisfied by the basic cohomology (so, it is a transverse property), but a new version of the HLP has been recently given in terms of duality of the cohomology of the manifold itself in arXiv:1306.2896. Both properties were proved to be equivalent (see arXiv:1311.1431) in the case of K-contact flows. In this paper we extend both versions of the HLP (transverse and not) to the more general category of isometric flows, and show that they are equivalent. We also give some explicit examples which illustrate the categories where the HLP could be considered.

Review text

A famous theorem of Hodge theory says that on the cohomology of Kähler manifolds all Poincaré duality isomorphisms can be realised by multiplications with suitable powers of the symplectic form. This is called the Hard Lefschetz Property (HLP) and it often serves to show that many symplectic manifolds can not be Kähler. (Though there do exist some non-Kähler symplectic manifolds with the HLP.) In a similar vein, there is a notion of K-contact manifold which comes with a Reeb flow and a compatible Riemannian metric, and it is called Sasakian if its metric cone is Kähler with the symplectic form compatible with the contact form. In this case the HLP holds for the cohomology of the Sasakian manifold as well as for the basic cohomology of (the foliation induced by) its Reeb flow, and these (actually equivalent) conditions have been used to prove that some K-contact manifolds are not Sasakian. The paper under review considers isometric flows on odd-dimensional manifolds and says that they satisfy the HLP resp. transverse HLP if multiplication by powers of the Euler class induces isomorphisms of basic cohomology resp. cohomology. The authors show that these conditions are equivalent and call flows with this condition ``Lefschetz flows. They show that a K-contact manifold satisfies the HLP if and only if its Reeb flow is a Lefschetz flow. They also show that there are more examples beyond Reeb flows of Sasakian manifolds to satisfy this form of transverse HLP. On the other hand they construct examples of K-contact flows for which the transverse HLP does not hold, and also K-contact flows for which the transverse HLP holds but which can not come from a Sasakian structure.

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