On Homogeneous Kähler Manifolds

Abstract

The cone $M\times {\mathbb{R}}_{+}$ over a Sasakian manifold $M$ is equipped with a canonical Kähler structure with specific homogeneity properties with respect to the ${\mathbb{R}}_{+}$ coordinate. This Kähler structure completely encodes the underlying Sasakian structure. Recently, Grabowski, Grabowska and Mohseni provided a broader conceptual framework for this phenomenon via homogeneous Kähler structures, i.e. Kähler structures on a principal ${\mathbb{R}}^{\times }$-bundle $P$ satisfying similar homogeneity properties. This approach successfully extends Sasakian geometry from cooriented contact manifolds (where $P$ is a trivial principal bundle) to non-necessarily coorientable contact structures (where $P$ is non-necessarily trivial). Homogeneous Kähler structures are genuinely more general than Sasakian structures and this note precisely characterizes the extent of this generalization. This is achieved through a detailed analysis of all the involved compatibilities in terms of the line bundle tautologically associated to $P$. We also show that modifying the homogeneity condition on the Kähler structure allows this framework to encompass co-Kähler structures and a natural generalization of those as well.

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