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On pluricanonical locally conformally almost K\"ahler metrics

Differential Geometry 2026-03-30 v2

Abstract

On an almost complex manifold (M,J)(M,J), a pluricanonical locally conformally almost K\"ahler (LCAK) metric gg is induced by a locally conformally symplectic structure (F,θ)(F,\theta) of the first kind, characterized by the fact that DθD\theta is JJ-anti-invariant and that the image of the Nijenhuis tensor is gg-orthogonal to the distribution spanned by {θ,Jθ}\{\theta^\sharp,J\theta^\sharp\}, where θ\theta is the Lee form and DD 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 22-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 θ\theta^\sharp being real holomorphic, proving in that case Dθ=0D\theta=0 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