Balanced Bismut torsion-parallel manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature
Abstract
A long-lasting conjecture in non-Kähler geometry says that any compact Hermitian manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature must be either Kähler or Chern flat. The conjecture is known to be true in dimension 2 but remains open in dimensions 3 or higher, except in several special cases. In this article we consider compact Hermitian manifolds that are Bismut torsion-parallel (BTP for brevity), which means that the Bismut connection has parallel torsion. For BTP manifolds that are not balanced, the conjecture was proved by Chen and Zheng. They also confirmed the conjecture for balanced BTP manifolds in dimension 3, utilizing a classification result for such threefolds by Zhao and Zheng. In a recent work, we confirmed the conjecture for balanced BTP manifolds in dimension 4 through a detailed case-by-case analysis. In this article, we establish the conjecture for balanced BTP manifolds in all dimensions. We also disprove the full-rank B conjecture by constructing a compact balanced BTP fivefold with full-rank B that is neither Kähler nor Chern flat; its Chern holomorphic sectional curvature is nonconstant.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026balanced,
title = {{Balanced Bismut torsion-parallel manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature}},
author = {Qingsong Wang and Fangyang Zheng},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.26089},
eprint = {2609.26089},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26089},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Balanced Bismut torsion-parallel manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature
AU - Qingsong Wang
AU - Fangyang Zheng
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.26089
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26089
AB - A long-lasting conjecture in non-Kähler geometry says that any compact Hermitian manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature must be either Kähler or Chern flat. The conjecture is known to be true in dimension 2 but remains open in dimensions 3 or higher, except in several special cases. In this article we consider compact Hermitian manifolds that are Bismut torsion-parallel (BTP for brevity), which means that the Bismut connection has parallel torsion. For BTP manifolds that are not balanced, the conjecture was proved by Chen and Zheng. They also confirmed the conjecture for balanced BTP manifolds in dimension 3, utilizing a classification result for such threefolds by Zhao and Zheng. In a recent work, we confirmed the conjecture for balanced BTP manifolds in dimension 4 through a detailed case-by-case analysis. In this article, we establish the conjecture for balanced BTP manifolds in all dimensions. We also disprove the full-rank B conjecture by constructing a compact balanced BTP fivefold with full-rank B that is neither Kähler nor Chern flat; its Chern holomorphic sectional curvature is nonconstant.
ER -