The complex geometry of two exceptional flag manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10231-020-00965-8MaRDI QIDQ2210725zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Thung, D. Kotschick

Publication date 8 November 2020

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02557

zbMATH Keywords

Chern numbersflag manifoldsKähler geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: We discuss the complex geometry of two complex five-dimensional K"ahler manifolds which are homogeneous under the exceptional Lie group $G_2$. For one of these manifolds rigidity of the complex structure among all K"ahlerian complex structures was proved by Brieskorn, for the other one we prove it here. We relate the K"ahler assumption in Brieskorn's theorem to the question of existence of a complex structure on the six-dimensional sphere, and we compute the Chern numbers of all $G_2$-invariant almost complex structures on these manifolds.

Review text

The exceptional Lie group \(G_{2}\) admits two non-conjugate embeddings of \(U(2)\), we denote by \(Z\) and \(Q\) the two smooth quotients \(G_{2}/U(2)\) with their canonical complex structure. The variety \(Q\) is diffeomorphic to the quadric fivefold, and \(Z\) is the Salamon twistor space of the exceptional Wolf space. It is known that \(Z\) and \(Q\) carry, respectively, two and four invariant almost complex structures, up to conjugation. The paper under review computes the degree of all Chern polynomials of degree \(5\) of the different invariant complex structures of \(Z\) and \(Q\). Moreover, the authors prove that \(Z\) has a unique Kählerian complex structure. The same was proved for \(Q\) by \textit{E. Brieskorn} [Math. Ann. 155, 184--193 (1964; Zbl 0119.37703)]. The proof is based on the explicit calculation of the Chern numbers of any Kählerian manifold \(X\) homeomorphic to \(Z\). Such computations imply that \(X\) is a Fano fivefold of index and coindex \(3\), so that it is biholomorphic to \(Z\) by a result of [\textit{S. Mukai}, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, No. 9, 3000--3002 (1989; Zbl 0679.14020)]. The second theorem is a necessary condition for the Hopf problem. First of all, it is proved that \(Q\) is diffeomorphic, among others, to the projectivized holomorphic tangent and cotangent bundles of the \(6\)-sphere \(S^{6}\). Hence, if \(S^{6}\) admits a complex structure, then \(Q\) would be diffeomorphic to two different non-Kähler complex structures.

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