Nilmanifold deformation conjecture for compact non-Kähler SKL manifolds

Let (Mn,g)(M^n,g) be a compact Strominger Kähler-like (SKL) manifold, meaning a Hermitian manifold equipped with a Strominger Kähler-like metric, with gg non-Kähler. Assume that its canonical line bundle is trivial. A complex nilmanifold is a quotient N=G/ΓN=G/\Gamma, where GG is a nilpotent Lie group and Γ\Gamma is a cocompact lattice, equipped here with a left invariant metric compatible with a left invariant complex structure on GG.

Nilmanifold deformation conjecture. Then (Mn,g)(M^n,g) can be deformed to a complex nilmanifold (Nn,h)(N^n,h) of this form. Moreover, the step of GG is at most two, the left invariant complex structure on GG is necessarily abelian, and its structure is the one described by Theorem 1 of ZZ1.

Complex nilmanifolds provide higher-dimensional analogues of Kodaira surfaces, and the cited classification suggests that they may account for compact non-Kähler SKL manifolds with trivial canonical bundle, up to deformation of complex structures and SKL metrics. The conjecture remains open in the supplied source.

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Shing-Tung Yau, Quanting Zhao and Fangyang Zheng, “On Strominger Kähler-like manifolds with degenerate torsion”, arXiv:1908.05322 (2022).

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