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Hard Lefschetz Theorem for Sasakian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2015-06-16 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that on a compact Sasakian manifold (M,η,g)(M, \eta, g) of dimension 2n+12n+1, for any 0pn0 \le p \le n the wedge product with η(dη)p\eta \wedge (d\eta)^p defines an isomorphism between the spaces of harmonic forms ΩΔnp(M)\Omega^{n-p}_\Delta (M) and ΩΔn+p+1(M)\Omega^{n+p+1}_\Delta (M). Therefore it induces an isomorphism between the de Rham cohomology spaces Hnp(M)H^{n-p}(M) and Hn+p+1(M)H^{n+p+1}(M). Such isomorphism is proven to be independent of the choice of a compatible Sasakian metric on a given contact manifold. As a consequence, an obstruction for a contact manifold to admit Sasakian structures is found.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2896,
  title  = {Hard Lefschetz Theorem for Sasakian manifolds},
  author = {Beniamino Cappelletti Montano and Antonio De Nicola and Ivan Yudin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2896},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in the Journal of Differential Geometry

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