Killing-form convergence conjecture for Hermitian curvature flow on complex simple groups
Killing-form convergence conjecture for Hermitian curvature flow on complex simple groups
Let be a complex Lie group whose Lie algebra is the complexification of a simple compact real Lie algebra with invariant metric . Let correspond to ; this element is called the Killing form. Let solve the Hermitian curvature flow ODE on its maximal time interval . Killing-form convergence conjecture. There exist and such that pinches towards , namely
The conjecture describes the expected asymptotic behavior of the reduced Hermitian curvature flow on complex Lie groups with simple compact real form: after normalization, the solution should converge to a translate and scalar multiple of the Killing form. The supplied text gives no resolution, so its status remains open.
Progress summary
A 2021 paper disproved the conjecture for the groups corresponding to three or more dimensions, while the smallest case is known to converge.
The conjecture, stated in 2017, predicts normalized convergence of Hermitian curvature flow on complex simple groups to a translated and rescaled Killing form.
Known results
- For , the normalized solution converges to the dual of the Killing form (2017).
- The metric induced by is scale-static under the flow (2017).
December 2021 counterexample
A proved counterexample shows that the canonical Killing-form metric is dynamically unstable on for . Solutions arbitrarily close to it can have finite-time rescaled limits locally modeled on shrinking solitons on , contradicting universal convergence to the canonical metric.
Current status (as of August 2026): The general convergence conjecture is disproved for with , while the case is known positively.
Sources
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Primary source
Yury Ustinovskiy, “Hermitian curvature flow on complex homogeneous manifolds”, arXiv:1706.07023 (2017).
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