An intrinsic volume functional on almost complex 6-manifolds and nearly Kähler geometry

DOI10.2140/PJM.2008.235.323zbMATH Open1156.53045arXivmath/0507179OpenAlexW2108960265MaRDI QIDQ953085FDOQ953085

Misha Verbitsky

Publication date: 14 November 2008

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

Abstract: Let $(M,I)$ be an almost complex 6-manifold. The obstruction to integrability of almost complex structure (so-called Nijenhuis tensor) maps a 3-dimensional bundle to a 3-dimensional one. We say that Nijenhuis tensor is non-degenerate if it is an isomorphism. An almost complex manifold is called nearly Kaehler if it admits a Hermitian form $omega$ such that $abla(omega)$ is totally antisymmetric, $abla$ being the Levi-Civita connection. We show that a nearly Kaehler metric on a given almost complex 6-manifold with non-degenerate Nijenhuis tensor is unique (up to a constant). We interpret the nearly Kaehler property in terms of G_2-geometry and in terms of connections with totally antisymmetric torsion, obtaining a number of equivalent definitions. Further on, we construct an intrinsic diffeomorphism-invariant functional on the space of almost complex structures on $M$, similar to the Hitchin functional, and compute its extrema in the following important case. Consider an almost complex structure $I$ with non-degenerate Nijenhuis tensor, admitting a Hermitian connection with totally antisymmetric torsion. We show that the intrinsic volume functional has an extremum in $I$ if and only if $(M,I)$ is nearly Kaehler.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507179

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structureCalabi-YauHitchin functional\(G_2\)-geometryGray manifoldnearly Kähler

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

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