Results Concerning Almost Complex Structures on the Six-Sphere

For the standard metric on the six-dimensional sphere, with Levi-Civita connection ∇, we show there is no almost complex structure J such that ∇XJ and ∇JXJ commute for every X, nor is there any integrable J such that ∇JXJ = J∇XJ for every X. The latter statement generalizes a previously known result...

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Results Concerning Almost Complex Structures on the Six-Sphere / S.O. Wilson // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2018. — Т. 14. — Бібліогр.: 12 назв. — англ.
1815-0659
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C15; 32Q60; 53A07
arXiv: 1610.09620
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/209538
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2018.034
For the standard metric on the six-dimensional sphere, with Levi-Civita connection ∇, we show there is no almost complex structure J such that ∇XJ and ∇JXJ commute for every X, nor is there any integrable J such that ∇JXJ = J∇XJ for every X. The latter statement generalizes a previously known result on the non-existence of integrable orthogonal almost complex structures on the six-sphere. Both statements have refined versions, expressed as intrinsic first-order differential inequalities depending only on J and the metric. The new techniques employed include an almost-complex analogue of the Gauss map, defined for any almost-complex manifold in Euclidean space.
I gratefully acknowledge Queens College's sabbatical/fellowship leave program, which provided me with time to conduct some of this research. I thank Arthur Parzygnat for comments on a preliminary version of this paper, and also thank the referees for their suggestions, which have improved this paper.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Results Concerning Almost Complex Structures on the Six-Sphere
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