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Twisting Hermitian and hypercomplex geometries

Differential Geometry 2019-12-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A twist construction for manifolds with torus action is described generalising certain T-duality examples and constructions in hypercomplex geometry. It is applied to complex, SKT, hypercomplex and HKT manifolds to construct compact simply-connected examples. In particular, we find hypercomplex manifolds that admit no compatible HKT metric, and HKT manifolds whose Obata connection has holonomy contained in SL(n,H)SL(n,\mathbb H).

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@article{arxiv.0812.2780,
  title  = {Twisting Hermitian and hypercomplex geometries},
  author = {Andrew Swann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2780},
  year   = {2019}
}

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27 pages

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