Compatibility between non-Kähler structures on complex (nil)manifolds

Abstract

We study the interplay between the following types of special non-Kähler Hermitian metrics on compact complex manifolds: it locally conformally Kähler, $k$-Gauduchon, balanced and locally conformally balanced and prove that a locally conformally Kähler compact nilmanifold carrying a balanced or a $k$-Gauduchon metric is necessarily a torus. Combined with a result of Fino and Vezzoni from 2016, this leads to the fact that a compact complex 2-step nilmanifold endowed with whichever two of the following types of metrics: balanced, pluriclosed and locally conformally Kähler is a torus. Moreover, we construct a family of compact nilmanifolds in any dimension carrying both balanced and locally conformally balanced metrics and finally we show a compact complex nilmanifold does not support a left-invariant locally conformally hyperKähler structure.

arXiv comment15 pages. v3: A few additions to reflect the version to be published in Transformation Groups