On pluricanonical locally conformally almost K\"ahler metrics
Abstract
On an almost complex manifold , a pluricanonical locally conformally almost K\"ahler (LCAK) metric is induced by a locally conformally symplectic structure of the first kind, characterized by the fact that is -anti-invariant and that the image of the Nijenhuis tensor is -orthogonal to the distribution spanned by , where is the Lee form and is the Levi-Civita connection. On a compact complex manifold, pluricanonical locally conformally K\"ahler (LCK) metrics have parallel Lee form. The same conclusion holds for LCK Chern--Ricci flat Gauduchon metrics. We generalize both results to LCAK metrics. We also observe that on a compact pluricanonical LCAK manifold with a non-trivial Lee form, there is no symplectic form compatible with the same almost complex structure. Moreover, we remark that the pluricanonical LCAK condition implies that the fundamental -form is an eigenform of the Hodge Laplacian, and we give a simple characterization of the pluricanonical LCAK condition on compact manifolds. Finally, we study LCAK metrics with being real holomorphic, proving in that case when the metric is Gauduchon.
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@article{arxiv.2602.12352,
title = {On pluricanonical locally conformally almost K\"ahler metrics},
author = {Ethan Addison and Tedi Draghici and Mehdi Lejmi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12352},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Minor improvements. Extends the 4D pluricanonical characterization to all dimensions. Proves that for n>4, the pluricanonical condition is equivalent to the fundamental 2-form being a Laplacian eigenform