The harmonic heat flow of almost complex structures

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8335MaRDI QIDQ5009305zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weiyong He, Bo Li

Publication date 20 August 2021

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12210

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We define and study the harmonic heat flow for almost complex structures which are compatible with a Riemannian structure $(M,g)$. This is a tensor-valued version of harmonic map heat flow. We prove that if the initial almost complex structure $J$ has small energy (depending on the norm $|ablaJ|$), then the flow exists for all time and converges to a K"ahler structure. We also prove that there is a finite time singularity if the initial energy is sufficiently small but there is no K"ahler structure in the homotopy class. A main technical tool is a version of monotonicity formula, similar as in the theory of the harmonic map heat flow. We also construct an almost complex structure on a flat four tori with small energy such that the harmonic heat flow blows up at finite time with such an initial data.

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