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Hermitian manifolds with flat Gauduchon connections

Differential Geometry 2022-07-20 v2

Abstract

We complete the classification of compact Hermitian manifolds admitting a flat Gauduchon connection. In particular, we establish a conjecture of Yang and Zheng, showing that apart from the cases of a flat Chern or Bismut connection, such manifolds are K\"ahler. More generally, we prove the same result holds when the flatness assumption is replaced by the so-called K\"ahler-like condition, proving a conjecture of Angella, Otal, Ugarte and Villacampa. We also treat the non-compact case.

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@article{arxiv.2204.08170,
  title  = {Hermitian manifolds with flat Gauduchon connections},
  author = {Ramiro A. Lafuente and James Stanfield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.08170},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages. Significant changes (including title) as the main theorem (Theorem 3.1) has been improved: The compactness assumption can be dropped with two possible exceptions and the flatness assumption has been relaxed to the Kaehler-like condition in all cases. Proof simplified and notation updated