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Bott-Chern and $\bar\partial$ Harmonic forms on Almost Hermitian 4-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2021-11-02 v1 Analysis of PDEs Complex Variables

Abstract

We prove that on a compact almost Hermitian 4-manifold the space of ˉ\bar\partial-harmonic (1,1)(1,1)-forms always has dimension hˉ1,1=b+1h_{\bar\partial}^{1,1} = b_- +1 or bb_-, whilst the space of Bott-Chern harmonic (1,1)(1,1)-forms always has dimension hBC1,1=b+1h_{BC}^{1,1} = b_- +1. We also perform calculations of hBC2,1h^{2,1}_{BC} and hBC1,2h^{1,2}_{BC} on the Kodaira-Thurston manifold, thereby providing a full account of when hBCp,qh^{p,q}_{BC} is or is not invariant of the choice of almost Hermitian metric. Finally, we introduce a decomposition of the space of L2L^2 functions on all torus bundles over S1S^1, which has proven useful for solving linear PDEs, and we demonstrate its use in the calculation of hˉp,qh^{p,q}_{\bar\partial}.

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@article{arxiv.2111.00518,
  title  = {Bott-Chern and $\bar\partial$ Harmonic forms on Almost Hermitian 4-manifolds},
  author = {Tom Holt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.00518},
  year   = {2021}
}

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27 pages

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