Picard groups of certain compact complex parallelizable manifolds and related spaces

Abstract

Let $G$ be a complex simply connected semisimple Lie group and let $\Gamma$ be a torsionless uniform irreducible lattice in $G$. Then $\Gamma \backslash G$ is a compact complex non-Kähler manifold whose tangent bundle is holomorphically trivial. In this note we compute the Picard group of $\Gamma \backslash G$ when $\rank(G)\geq 3$. When $\rank(G)\lneq 3$, we determine the group $Pi{c}^0(\Gamma \backslash G)\subset Pic(\Gamma \backslash G)$ of topologically trivial holomorphic line bundles. When $\rank(G)\ge 2$, we also show that $Pi{c}^0(P_{\Gamma })$ is isomorphic to $Pi{c}^0(Y)$ where $P_{\Gamma }$ is a $\Gamma \backslash G$-bundle associated to a principal $G$-bundle over a compact connected complex manifold $Y$, and, when $\rank(G)\ge 3$, we show that $Pic(Y)\to Pic(P_{\Gamma })$ is injective with finite cokernel.

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