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Curvature properties of the Chern connection of twistor spaces

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The twistor space \Z of an oriented Riemannian 4-manifold M admits a natural 1-parameter family of Riemannian metrics h_t compatible with the almost complex structures J_1 and J_2 introduced, respectively, by Atiyah, Hitchin and Singer, and Eells and Salamon. In this paper we compute the first Chern form of the almost Hermitian manifold (\Z,h_t,J_n), n=1,2 and find the geometric conditions on M under which the curvature of its Chern connection D^n is of type (1,1). We also describe the twistor spaces of constant holomorphic sectional curvature with respect to D^n and show that the Nijenhuis tensor of J_2 is D^2-parallel provided the base manifold M is Einstein and self-dual.

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@article{arxiv.math/0503384,
  title  = {Curvature properties of the Chern connection of twistor spaces},
  author = {J. Davidov and G. Grantcharov and O. Muskarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0503384},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages, to appear in Rocky Mountain J. Math