Vaisman nilmanifolds
We prove that if a compact nilmanifold $Γ\backslash G$ is endowed with a Vaisman structure, then $G$ is isomorphic to the Cartesian product of the Heisenberg group with $\mathbb{R}$.
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Giovanni Bazzoni
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A splitting theorem for compact Vaisman manifolds
We extend to metric compact mapping tori a splitting result for coKähler manifolds. In particular, we prove that a compact Vaisman manifold is finitely covered by the product of a Sasakian manifold and a circle.
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On locally conformal symplectic manifolds of the first kind
We present some examples of locally conformal symplectic structures of the first kind on compact nilmanifolds which do not admit Vaisman metrics. One of these examples does not admit locally conformal Kähler metrics and all the structures come from left-invariant locally conformal symplectic structures on the corresponding nilpotent Lie groups. Under certain topological restrictions related with the compactness of the canonical foliation, we prove a structure theorem for locally conformal symplectic manifolds of the first kind. In the non compact case, we show that they are the product of a real line with a compact contact manifold and, in the compact case, we obtain that they are mapping tori of compact contact manifolds by strict contactomorphisms. Motivated by the aforementioned examples, we also study left-invariant locally conformal symplectic structures on Lie groups. In particular, we obtain a complete description of these structures (with non-zero Lee $1$-form) on connected simply connected nilpotent Lie groups in terms of locally conformal symplectic extensions and symplectic double extensions of symplectic nilpotent Lie groups. In order to obtain this description, we study locally conformal symplectic structures of the first kind on Lie algebras.
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Formality and the Lefschetz property in symplectic and cosymplectic geometry
We review topological properties of Kähler and symplectic manifolds, and of their odd-dimensional counterparts, coKähler and cosymplectic manifolds. We focus on formality, Lefschetz property and parity of Betti numbers, also distinguishing the simply-connected case (in the Kähler/symplectic situation) and the $b_1=1$ case (in the coKähler/cosymplectic situation).
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A $6$-dimensional simply connected complex and symplectic manifold with no Kähler metric
We construct a simply connected compact manifold which has complex and symplectic structures but does not admit Kähler metrics, in the lowest possible dimension where this can happen, that is, dimension 6. Such a manifold is automatically formal and has even odd-degree Betti numbers but it does not satisfy the Lefschetz property for any symplectic form.
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Locally conformal symplectic nilmanifolds with no locally conformal Kähler metrics
We obtain an example of a compact locally conformal symplectic nilmanifold which admits no locally conformal Kähler metrics. This gives a new positive answer to a question raised by L. Ornea and M. Verbitsky.
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K-cosymplectic manifolds
In this paper we study K-cosymplectic manifolds, i.e., smooth cosymplectic manifolds for which the Reeb field is Killing with respect to some Riemannian metric. These structures generalize coKähler structures, in the same way as K-contact structures generalize Sasakian structures. In analogy to the contact case, we distinguish between (quasi-)regular and irregular structures; in the regular case, the K-cosymplectic manifold turns out to be a flat circle bundle over an almost Kähler manifold. We investigate de Rham and basic cohomology of K-cosymplectic manifolds, as well as cosymplectic and Hamiltonian vector fields and group actions on such manifolds. The deformations of type I and II in the contact setting have natural analogues for cosymplectic manifolds; those of type I can be used to show that compact K-cosymplectic manifolds always carry quasi-regular structures. We consider Hamiltonian group actions and use the momentum map to study the equivariant cohomology of the canonical torus action on a compact K-cosymplectic manifold, resulting in relations between the basic cohomology of the characteristic foliation and the number of closed Reeb orbits on an irregular K-cosymplectic manifold.
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Manifolds which are complex and symplectic but not Kähler
The first example of a compact manifold admitting both complex and symplectic structures but not admitting a Kähler structure is the renowned Kodaira-Thurston manifold. We review its construction and show that this paradigm is very general and is not related to the fundamental group. More specifically, we prove that the simply-connected $8$-dimensional compact manifold of [\textsc{M. Fernández and V. Muñoz}, \emph{An 8-dimensional non-formal simply connected symplectic manifold}, Ann. of Math. (2) \textbf{167}, no. 3, 1045--1054, 2008.] admits both symplectic and complex structures but does not carry Kähler metrics.
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Non-formal co-symplectic manifolds
We study the formality of the mapping torus of an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism of a manifold. In particular, we give conditions under which a mapping torus has a non-zero Massey product. As an application we prove that there are non-formal compact co-symplectic manifolds of dimension $m$ and with first Betti number $b$ if and only if $m=3$ and $b \geq 2$, or $m \geq 5$ and $b \geq 1$. Explicit examples for each one of these cases are given.
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On the structure of co-Kähler manifolds
By the work of Li, a compact co-Kähler manifold $M$ is a mapping torus $K_φ$, where $K$ is a Kähler manifold and $φ$ is a Hermitian isometry. We show here that there is always a finite cyclic cover $\bar M$ of the form $\bar M \cong K \times S^1$, where $\cong$ is equivariant diffeomorphism with respect to an action of $S^1$ on $M$ and the action of $S^1$ on $K \times S^1$ by translation on the second factor. Furthermore, the covering transformations act diagonally on $S^1$, $K$ and are translations on the $S^1$ factor. In this way, we see that, up to a finite cover, all compact co-Kähler manifolds arise as the product of a Kähler manifold and a circle.
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Minimal algebras and $2-$step nilpotent Lie algebras in dimension 7
We use the methods of \cite{BM} to give a classification of $7-$dimensional minimal algebras, generated in degree 1, over any field $\bk$ of characteristic $\textrm{char}(\bk)\neq 2$, whose characteristic filtration has length 2. Equivalently, we classify $2-$step nilpotent Lie algebras in dimension 7. This classification also recovers the real homotopy type of $7-$dimensional $2-$step nilmanifolds.
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Classification of Minimal Algebras over any Field up to Dimension 6
We give a classification of minimal algebras generated in degree 1, defined over any field $\bk$ of characteristic different from 2, up to dimension 6. This recovers the classification of nilpotent Lie algebras over $\bk$ up to dimension 6. In the case of a field $\bk$ of characteristic zero, we obtain the classification of nilmanifolds of dimension less than or equal to 6, up to $\bk$-homotopy type. Finally, we determine which rational homotopy types of such nilmanifolds carry a symplectic structure.
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