On nearly-Kähler geometry
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On nearly-Kähler geometry
zbMATH Open document ID: 1020.53030
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019506730571
author: Paul-Andi Nagy
published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
publication date: 2002-09-18T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110065
review text: The paper deals with the canonical Hermitian connection of nearly-Kähler manifolds (shortly ``NK manifolds''). Recall that an almost-Hermitian manifold \((M,g,J)\) is said to be nearly-Kähler if \((\nabla_{X}J)(X)=0\) for every \(X\in TM\) where \(\nabla\) is the Levi-Civita connection of \(g\) [\textit{A. Gray}, cf. e.g. J. Differ. Geom. 4, 283-309 (1970; Zbl 0201.54401)]. An NK manifold is called strict if \(\nabla_{X}J\neq 0\) for every \(X\in TM, X\neq 0\). The author starts with the observation that any complete, simply connected, NK manifold is the Riemannian product of a Kähler manifold and a strict NK manifold. Because of that, he restricts his considerations to strict NK manifolds. One of the main results proved in the paper states that if \((M,g,J)\) is a complete, strict NK manifold, then: (a) The canonical Hermitian connection has reduced holonomy provided the metric \(g\) is not Einstein; (b) The metric \(g\) has positive Ricci curvature (hence \(M\) is compact and with finite fundamental group); (c) The scalar curvature of \(g\) is a positive constant. The author proves also that if, in addition, \(M\) is simply connected and the holonomy group of the canonical Hermitian connection is contained in \(U(1)\times U(n-1)\), \(n=\frac{1}{2}\dim M\), then \(M\) is the Riemannian product of a strict NK manifold and the twistor space of a quaternionic-Kähler manifold with positive scalar curvature. This result has been earlier proved in the case when \(\dim M=6\) by \textit{F. Belgun} and \textit{A. Moroianu} [Ann. Global. Anal. Geom. 19, 307-318 (2001; Zbl 0992.53037)]. As a corollary, the author obtains a structure result for complete NK manifolds of dimension 10.
reviewed by: Johann Davidov
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C29
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C28
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C55
zbMATH DE Number: 1802373
zbMATH Keywords: nearly-Kähler manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: twistor spaces
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein metric
zbMATH Keywords: Hermitian connection
zbMATH Keywords: Ricci curvature
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: math/0110065
OpenAlex ID: W2185530926
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