Kählerness of compact Hermitian surfaces under semi-definite Strominger-Bismut-Ricci curvatures

Abstract

We prove several Kählerness criteria for compact Hermitian surfaces under semi-definiteness assumptions on natural Ricci curvatures of the Strominger-Bismut connection. The key tools for proving these results are explicit identities relating these Ricci curvatures to the torsion of the Strominger-Bismut connection, together with corresponding Chern number identities on compact Hermitian surfaces. The results may be viewed as Strominger-Bismut analogues and reformulations of Yang's Kählerness criteria for compact complex surfaces.

v4: This version corrects the proof of Lemma 3.1 and refines the subsequent identities and statements accordingly. The exposition is also slightly improved