Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds

We study the space of (orthogonal) almost complex structures on closed six-dimensional manifolds as the space of sections of the twistor space for a given metric. For a connected six-manifold with vanishing first Betti number, we express the space of almost complex structures as a quotient of the sp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2022
Hauptverfasser: Granja, Gustavo, Milivojević, Aleksandar
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description We study the space of (orthogonal) almost complex structures on closed six-dimensional manifolds as the space of sections of the twistor space for a given metric. For a connected six-manifold with vanishing first Betti number, we express the space of almost complex structures as a quotient of the space of sections of a seven-sphere bundle over the manifold by a circle action, and then use this description to compute the rational homotopy theoretic minimal model of the components that satisfy a certain Chern number condition. We further obtain a formula for the homological intersection number of two sections of the twistor space in terms of the Chern classes of the corresponding almost complex structures.
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Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds. Gustavo Granja and Aleksandar Milivojević. SIGMA 18 (2022), 093, 23 pages
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2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 32Q60; 53C27; 53C28; 55P62
arXiv:2207.12946
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211811
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We study the space of (orthogonal) almost complex structures on closed six-dimensional manifolds as the space of sections of the twistor space for a given metric. For a connected six-manifold with vanishing first Betti number, we express the space of almost complex structures as a quotient of the space of sections of a seven-sphere bundle over the manifold by a circle action, and then use this description to compute the rational homotopy theoretic minimal model of the components that satisfy a certain Chern number condition. We further obtain a formula for the homological intersection number of two sections of the twistor space in terms of the Chern classes of the corresponding almost complex structures.
We thank Luis Fernandez and Scott Wilson for numerous illuminating discussions, and the referees for helpful comments. The first author was partially supported by FCT/Portugal through CAMGSD, IST-ID, projects UIDB/04459/2020 and UIDP/04459/2020. The second author would like to thank the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn for its support, along with the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Djursholm for its hospitality during a visit to the “Higher algebraic structures in algebra, topology and geometry” program, where part of this work was carried out.
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Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds
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spellingShingle Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds
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title Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds
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title_fullStr Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds
title_full_unstemmed Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds
title_short Topology of Almost Complex Structures on Six-Manifolds
title_sort topology of almost complex structures on six-manifolds
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