Applications of rational homotopy to geometry (results, problems, conjectures)
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Applications of rational homotopy to geometry (results, problems, conjectures)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0873.55012
author: Aleksy Tralle
published in: Expositiones Mathematicae
publication date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00Z
review text: During the last years, rational homotopy theory (especially Sullivan's minimal model) was applied successfully to the Thurston-Weinstein problem of constructing compact symplectic manifolds not admitting (positive definite) Kähler metrics [see, for example, the reviewer with \textit{Luis A. Cordero} and \textit{A. Gray}, Topology 25, 375-380 (1986; Zbl 0596.53030); the reviewer with \textit{M. J. Gotay} and \textit{A. Gray}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 103, 1209-1212 (1988; Zbl 0656.53034); \textit{K. Hasegawa}, ibid. 106, 65-71 (1989; Zbl 0691.53040); the reviewer with \textit{A. Gray} and \textit{J. W. Morgan}, Mich. Math. J. 38, 271-283 (1991; Zbl 0726.53028)], to Arnold's conjecture [\textit{C. McCord} and \textit{J. Oprea}, Topology 32, 701-717 (1993; Zbl 0798.58017)] as well as to some other geometric problems. In this paper, the author gives a clear presentation of the results proved in the above-mentioned papers and others, in a unified way, stressing geometric techniques. Moreover, some results of the author concerning Kähler solvmanifolds, published in Coll. Math. 73 (1997), are discussed in some detail. Also, relevant problems and conjectures concerning symplectic and Kähler geometry are considered.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55P62
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C55
zbMATH DE Number: 968833
zbMATH Keywords: Dolbeault homotopy theory
zbMATH Keywords: complex manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: compact nilmanifolds
zbMATH Keywords: compact solvmanifolds
zbMATH Keywords: rational homotopy theory
zbMATH Keywords: minimal model
zbMATH Keywords: symplectic manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: Kähler metrics
zbMATH Keywords: Arnold's conjecture
reviewed by: Marisa Fernández
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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