Complex nilmanifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature

Li, Yulu; Zheng, Fangyang

doi:10.1090/proc/15724

Complex nilmanifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature
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Abstract:

A well known conjecture in complex geometry states that a compact Hermitian manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature must be Kähler if the constant is non-zero and must be Chern flat if the constant is zero. The conjecture is confirmed in complex dimension $2$, by the work of Balas-Gauduchon [Math. Z. 189 (1985), pp. 193–210]. (when the constant is zero or negative) and by Apostolov-Davidov-Muskarov [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), pp. 3051–3063] (when the constant is positive). For higher dimensions, the conjecture is still largely unknown. In this article, we restrict ourselves to the class of complex nilmanifolds and confirm the conjecture in that case.

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