Dolbeault and J-Invariant Cohomologies on Almost Complex Manifolds

In this paper we relate the cohomology of J-invariant forms to the Dolbeault cohomology of an almost complex manifold. We find necessary and sufficient condition for the inclusion of the former into the latter to be true up to isomorphism. We also extend some results obtained by J. Cirici and S. O. Wilson about the computation of the left-invariant cohomology of nilmanifolds to the setting of solvmanifolds. Several examples are given.

Almost Hermitian Identities

We study the local commutation relation between the Lefschetz operator and the exterior differential on an almost complex manifold with a compatible metric. The identity that we obtain generalizes the backbone of the local Kähler identities to the setting of almost Hermitian manifolds, allowing for new global results for such manifolds.

PLURIPOLAR SETS, REAL SUBMANIFOLDS AND PSEUDOHOLOMORPHIC DISCS

We prove that a compact subset of full measure on a generic submanifold of an almost complex manifold is not a pluripolar set. Several related results on boundary behavior of plurisubharmonic functions are established. Our approach is based on gluing a family of complex discs to a generic manifold along a boundary arc and could admit further applications.

On the Chern numbers and the Hilbert polynomial of an almost complex manifold with a circle action

Let [Formula: see text] be a compact, connected, almost complex manifold of dimension [Formula: see text] endowed with a [Formula: see text]-preserving circle action with isolated fixed points. In this paper, we analyze the “geography problem” for such manifolds, deriving equations relating the Chern numbers to the index [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text]. We study the symmetries and zeros of the Hilbert polynomial, which imply many rigidity results for the Chern numbers when [Formula: see text]. We apply these results to the category of compact, connected symplectic manifolds. A long-standing question posed by McDuff and Salamon asked about the existence of non-Hamiltonian actions with isolated fixed points. This question was answered recently by Tolman, with an explicit construction of a 6-dimensional manifold with such an action. One issue that this raises is whether one can find topological criteria that ensure the manifold can only support a Hamiltonian or only a non-Hamiltonian action. In this vein, we are able to deduce such criteria from our rigidity theorems in terms of relatively few Chern numbers, depending on the index. Another consequence is that, if the action is Hamiltonian, the minimal Chern number coincides with the index and is at most [Formula: see text].

On the cohomology of almost-complex and symplectic manifolds and proper surjective maps

Let [Formula: see text] be an almost-complex manifold. In [Comparing tamed and compatible symplectic cones and cohomological properties of almost-complex manifolds, Comm. Anal. Geom. 17 (2009) 651–683], Li and Zhang introduce [Formula: see text] as the cohomology subgroups of the [Formula: see text]th de Rham cohomology group formed by classes represented by real pure-type forms. Given a proper, surjective, pseudo-holomorphic map between two almost-complex manifolds, we study the relationship among such cohomology groups. Similar results are proven in the symplectic setting for the cohomology groups introduced in [Cohomology and Hodge Theory on Symplectic manifolds: I, J. Differ. Geom. 91(3) (2012) 383–416] by Tseng and Yau and a new characterization of the hard Lefschetz condition in dimension [Formula: see text] is provided.

Submaximally symmetric c-projective structures

[Formula: see text]-projective structures are analogues of projective structures in the almost complex setting. The maximal dimension of the Lie algebra of [Formula: see text]-projective symmetries of a complex connection on an almost complex manifold of [Formula: see text]-dimension [Formula: see text] is classically known to be [Formula: see text]. We prove that the submaximal dimension is equal to [Formula: see text]. If the complex connection is minimal (encoded as a normal parabolic geometry), the harmonic curvature of the [Formula: see text]-projective structure has three components and we specify the submaximal symmetry dimensions and the corresponding geometric models for each of these three pure curvature types. If the connection is non-minimal, we introduce a modified normalization condition on the parabolic geometry and use this to resolve the symmetry gap problem. We prove that the submaximal symmetry dimension in the class of Levi-Civita connections for pseudo-Kähler metrics is [Formula: see text], and specializing to the Kähler case, we obtain [Formula: see text]. This resolves the symmetry gap problem for metrizable [Formula: see text]-projective structures.

On canonical-type connections on almost contact complex Riemannian manifolds

We consider a pair of smooth manifolds, which are the counterparts in the even-dimensional and odd-dimensional cases. They are separately an almost complex manifold with Norden metric and an almost contact manifolds with B-metric, respectively. They can be combined as the so-called almost contact complex Riemannian manifold. This paper is a survey with additions of results on differential geometry of canonical-type connections (i.e. metric connections with torsion satisfying a certain algebraic identity) on the considered manifolds.