Samelson complex structures for the tangent Lie group

DOI10.1007/S11587-024-00905-1MaRDI QIDQ6878000zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Pham

Publication date 7 January 2026

Published in Ricerche di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11587-024-00905-1

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structuresLie groupstangent bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Review text

It was shown by \textit{H. Samelson} [Port. Math. 12, 129--132 (1953; Zbl 0052.02405)] (and independently by \textit{H.-C. Wang} [Am. J. Math. 76, 1--32 (1954; Zbl 0055.16603)] in the more general setting of homogenenous manifolds) that every even-dimensional compact Lie group always admits a left-invariant integrable almost complex structure. The almost complex structure is obtained by exploiting the properties of the root space decomposition of an even-dimensional compact Lie group. \N\NThe author asks whether the Samelson construction can be adapted to certain classes of non-compact Lie groups. Taking inspiration from Samelson's construction for even-dimensional compact Lie groups, the author shows that for any compact Lie group \(G\) (odd- or even-dimensional), the tangent bundle \(TG\) admits a left-invariant integrable almost complex structure, where the Lie group structure on \(TG\) is the natural one induced from \(G\). \N\NThe paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. Section 2 deals with a brief review of the tangent Lie group and the root space decomposition of a compact Lie group. In Section 3, the author shows that the tangent Lie group of any compact Lie group (odd- or even-dimensional) always admits a left-invariant integrable almost complex structure. Section 4 is devoted to some examples.

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