Hermitian manifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature or real bisectional curvature
Abstract
An old conjecture in Hermitian geometry states that a compact Hermitian manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature is Kähler when the constant is nonzero and Chern flat when the constant is zero. Yang--Zheng introduced the real bisectional curvature as a generalization of the holomorphic sectional curvature and conjectured that, a compact Hermitian manifold with constant real bisectional curvature has zero constant and is Chern flat. They proved that the constant cannot be positive. In this paper, we first prove their conjecture. For a negative constant, we show that the metric is pluriclosed and use comparison with a negative Kähler--Einstein metric to obtain a contradiction. For the zero constant, we combine a torsion identity of Lin--Ren with the Bochner formula of Zhou--Zheng to prove Chern flatness. We also prove that a pluriclosed metric with constant negative holomorphic sectional curvature on a compact Kähler manifold is Kähler.
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BibTeX
@misc{tang2026hermitian,
title = {{Hermitian manifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature or real bisectional curvature}},
author = {Kai Tang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.14392},
eprint = {2609.14392},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14392},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Hermitian manifolds with constant holomorphic sectional curvature or real bisectional curvature
AU - Kai Tang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.14392
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14392
AB - An old conjecture in Hermitian geometry states that a compact Hermitian manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature is Kähler when the constant is nonzero and Chern flat when the constant is zero. Yang--Zheng introduced the real bisectional curvature as a generalization of the holomorphic sectional curvature and conjectured that, a compact Hermitian manifold with constant real bisectional curvature has zero constant and is Chern flat. They proved that the constant cannot be positive. In this paper, we first prove their conjecture. For a negative constant, we show that the metric is pluriclosed and use comparison with a negative Kähler--Einstein metric to obtain a contradiction. For the zero constant, we combine a torsion identity of Lin--Ren with the Bochner formula of Zhou--Zheng to prove Chern flatness. We also prove that a pluriclosed metric with constant negative holomorphic sectional curvature on a compact Kähler manifold is Kähler.
ER -