Lee classes on LCK manifolds with potential

Tohoku Mathematical Journal. 2024. Vol. 76. No. 1. P. 105 – 125.

Verbitsky M., Ornea L.

An LCK manifold is a complex manifold (M,I) equipped with a Hermitian form ω and a closed 1-form θ, called the Lee form, such that dω=θ∧ω. An LCK manifold with potential is an LCK manifold with a positive Kähler potential on its universal cover, such that the deck group multiplies the Kähler potential by a constant. A Lee class of an LCK manifold is the cohomology class of the Lee form. We determine the set of Lee classes on LCK manifolds admitting an LCK structure with potential, showing that it is an open half-space in H1(M,R). For Vaisman manifolds, this theorem was proven in 1994 by Tsukada; we give a new self-contained proof of his result.

Keywords: deformation, Teichmüller space, Vaisman manifold, Locally conformally Kähler, Hodge decomposition, LCK potential, algebraic cone, Lee class, Lee form

Publication based on the results of: Commutative, non-commutative and motivic algebraic geometry, and geometry of special manifolds (2024)