Complex non-Kähler manifolds that are cohomologically close to, or far from, being Kähler
Abstract.
We give four constructions of non- (hence non-Kähler) manifolds: (1) A simply connected page---manifold (2) A simply connected -manifold (3) For any , a simply connected compact manifold with nonzero differential on the -th page of the Frölicher spectral sequence. (4) For any , a pluriclosed nilmanifold with nonzero differential on the -th page of the Frölicher spectral sequence. The latter disproves a conjecture by Popovici. A main ingredient in the first three constructions is a simple resolution construction of certain quotient singularities with control on the cohomology.
1. Introduction
For any complex manifold , we have the Frölicher (or Hodge-de Rham) spectral sequence, starting from Dolbeault cohomology and converging to de Rham cohomology equipped with the Hodge filtration
When is compact and admits a Kähler metric or more generally admits a compact Kähler modification (Fujiki’s class ), this spectral sequence degenerates on the first page. Moreover, in this case, the Hodge filtration and its conjugate induce a pure Hodge structure on de Rham cohomology, which is succinctly characterized as:
where denotes the quotient of two successive filtration steps. If, like on Kähler manifolds, both of these properties (-degeneration and purity) hold, one says is a -manifold.
It is well-known that for general compact complex manifolds, both of these properties may fail, even drastically so, [CFG87, Pit89, CFG91, AT11, BR14, Ste22]. The examples witnessing this failure tend to be non-simply connected or of high dimension. We construct here simply connected examples for which the -property fails in minimal and maximal ways:
Construction I.
There exists a family of -dimensional simply connected compact complex manifolds , such that, for all , the Hodge filtrations induce a pure Hodge structure on for all and one has , but if and only if .
The combination of pure Hodge structure and has been studied under the name page---property or page--Hodge decomposition in [PSU21, PSU22, KS23]. Most notably, any compact complex holomorphically parallelizable manifold with solvable Lie algebra of holomorphic vector fields (i.e. holomorphically parallelizable solvmanifolds) satisfies this property. All these examples are not simply connected. Since any compact complex curve and any simply connected compact complex surface satisfies the usual -property, the dimension in this construction is optimal. For , the examples are three dimensional compact complex -manifolds not in Fujiki’s class which are very different from examples given in [Fri19].
Construction II.
There exists a simply connected compact complex -fold which satisfies , with
but is not a -manifold.
The combination of and for has been studied in [SW22], under the name -condition. All complex surfaces and all Vaisman manifolds are , but for those cases the simply connected examples are already Kähler. We do not know if there are -dimensional simply connected -manifolds but have not tried too hard to find one. Note that one may construct simply connected manifolds with the same cohomological properties as in Constructions I and II in arbitrarily high dimensions by taking products with simply connected -manifolds, e.g. .
While the first two constructions give simply connected examples with ‘minimal’ failure of the degeneration and purity properties, one may also ask for ‘maximal’ failure. By taking products of the manifold in Construction II with itself sufficiently many times, one finds, for any manifolds with and some for for any , using the Künneth formula for the [Ste22, Prop. 5.8]. Since the degeneration step on the Frölicher spectral sequence does not increase under taking products, the same argument is not possible there. Nevertheless, we show:
Construction III.
For any , there exists a simply connected compact complex manifold with .
This was first shown by Bigalke and Rollenske [BR14] without the hypothesis and our construction builds on theirs.
The main idea in all of these constructions is as follows (c.f. [FM08, Gua95]): Start with a non-simply connected example which admits a non-free action of a finite cyclic group such that the quotient is simply connected. Then resolve the singularities. The main technical difficulty is to keep a control over the cohomologies during this process. Since both the Frölicher spectral sequence and the numbers of a complex manifold are governed by the double complex of smooth forms , this amounts to keeping track of the bigraded quasi-isomorphism type of this double complex. For the first step this is standard: Differential forms on the quotient can be explained via (locally) invariant forms . The second step is more intricate. One knows how to control the double complex along blow-ups, so the most naive approach would be to blow-up submanifolds with nontrivial stabilizers of the -action and hope that the quotient of the blow-up by the induced action (or a finite iteration of such steps) yields a resolution of . Such an approach has been carried out in specific cases, see e.g. [ASTT20] and [ST22], but will in general already fail for , see e.g. [Sta16, Oda88]. Nevertheless, it can be extended to show the following general result:
Theorem A.
Let be a compact complex manifold of dimension with an action of a finite abelian group of order , for some . Then, the quotient admits a resolution of singularities and a bigraded quasi-isomorphism
(1) |
where looks like a bicomplex of a compact complex manifold . There is an isomorphism of fundamental groups .
Here, for two double complexes , the notation means there is a (chain of) bigraded quasi-isomorphism(s) connecting the two and . We say that a bicomplex looks like that of a compact complex manifold of dimension if unless , and for any decomposition into indecomposable summands (see Section 2.1 below),
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(real structure and duality) the collection of zigzags (with multiplicity) is symmetric under mirroring along diagonal and antidiagonal ,
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(only dots in the corners) the only zigzags with components in degrees , , and are dots,
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(FSS degenerates in dimension ) if , there are no even length zigzags.
The structure of in Theorem A can, in principle, be explicitly described in every concrete example.
In a somewhat different direction, one may ask whether the existence of special metrics (i.e. other than Kähler) implies something about the Frölicher spectral sequence or the numbers . For example, there are some results in this direction for Vaisman metrics (mentioned above), Astheno-Kähler metrics [JY93, CR22] and Hermitian symplectic metrics [Cav20] (the latter may or may not be all Kähler [ST10]). It was shown in [Pop19] that any compact complex manifold with an SKT (or pluriclosed) metric (i.e. ) which in addition satisfies a certian bound on the torsion satisfies and he further conjectured that this may be true for arbitrary SKT metrics. However, we show in Appendix A:
Construction IV.
For any , there exist compact complex nilmanifolds (possibly of high dimension) with an SKT metric and .
This construction also adapts the examples of [BR14], this time by passing to appropriately chosen torus bundles over them, which admit SKT metrics but keep the nondegeneracy properties of the Frölicher spectral sequence. While the present paper was in preparation, [LUV22] gave a different type of counterexample to the conjecture by pointing out that the example of [Pit89], which has , carries an SKT metric by a result in [AI03].
Acknowledgements. Parts of this paper were written during a stay of J.S. at the University of Osaka, and he is grateful for the invitation, financial support (provided by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H01787) and hospitality. J.S. would also like to thank MFO (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) and the organizers and participants of a very inspiring workshop in 2020, where the examples from Construction IV were found. Furthermore, J.S. thanks Daniel Greb and Jean Ruppenthal for some helpful discussions. We warmly thank Sönke Rollenske for explaining to us a specific resolution construction that evolved into what is now Theorem A. Finally, we thank J. Kollár and D. Abramovich for remarks on the preprint version. In particular, D. Abramovich pointed out a gap in the proof of a previous, more general version of Theorem A.
2. Preliminaries
2.1. Cohomology of compact complex manifolds
A double complex (of -vector spaces) is a bigraded -vector space together with two endomorphisms and of degree and which satisfy for or equivalently . We will always assume double complexes to be bounded, i.e. outside a finite region of . Often, they will also come equipped with a real structure, i.e. an antilinear involution such that and . The principal example is , the space of smooth -valued differential forms on a complex manifold. It carries a real structure induced by conjugation on the coefficients of forms. By [KQ20, Ste21], any double complex can written as a direct sum of indecomposable subcomplexes and every indecomposable double complex is either a ‘square’ or a ‘zigzag’ (see diagrams below, where each arrow drawn is an isomorphism and all spaces and maps not drawn are trivial).
For any double complex one has the column and row filtrations
and these induce filtrations on total cohomology , denoted by the same letters. The filtrations are said to induce a pure Hodge structure if . The filtrations also induce spectral sequences that converge from column, resp. row cohomology to the total cohomology, e.g.
If , this (column) spectral sequence is known as the Frölicher spectral sequence and the second (row) spectral sequence is determined via the real structure, so it is usually not considered. The following is a well-known tool to construct differentials on high pages of the spectral sequence, see e.g. [BT82, KQ20, Ste21].
Lemma 2.1.
Assume there is a direct sum decomposition of double complexes , with a zigzag of length , i.e. is isomorphic to the following complex of dimension
Then, there is a nonzero differential on the -th page of the Frölicher spectral sequence of : In fact, .
Proof.
We prove this up to constant: The column cohomology of has a basis given by the two nonzero classes and . On the other hand, the total cohomology of vanishes. Thus, there has to be a nonzero differential on as claimed. The statement for follows from the fact that spectral sequences are additive under direct sums of filtered modules. ∎
Note that because one can always take a decomposition into indecomposables, the converse is also true [KQ20, Ste21].
Definition 2.2 ([DGMS75]).
A complex manifold (resp. a double complex ) is said to have the -property, if the following equivalent conditions hold:
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The only direct summands appearing in (resp. ) are squares and zigzags of length (‘dots’):
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The Frölicher spectral sequence(s) for (resp. ) degenerates on the first page and the Hodge filtrations induce a pure Hodge structure on the total cohomology.
Sometimes, the name -property is used instead.
Definition 2.3 ([PSU22]).
A complex manifold (resp. a double complex ) is said to have the page-- (or page--Hodge decomposition) property, if the following equivalent conditions hold:
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The only direct summands appearing in (resp. ) are squares, and zigzags of length and (‘dots and lines’):
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The Frölicher spectral sequences for (resp. ) degenerate on the second page and the Hodge filtrations induce a pure Hodge structure on the total cohomology.
Definition 2.4 ([SW22]).
A complex manifold (resp. a double complex ) is said to have the -property, if the following equivalent conditions hold:
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(i)
The only direct summands appearing in (resp. ) are squares and zigzags of length and (‘dots, ’s and reverse ’s’):
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The Frölicher spectral sequence(s) for (resp. ) degenerates on the first page and the Hodge filtrations on total cohomology satisfy:
In terms of the numbers of the introduction, the condition on the filtrations can be written as as soon as . We will use:
Lemma 2.5.
Suppose is a double complex satisfying the page---property (resp. the -property), with a finite group acting on by automorphisms of double complexes, then the double complex of invariants also satisfies the page---property (resp. the -property).
Proof.
By Maschke’s theorem, there is an isomorphism of double complexes , where runs over the characters of and denotes the -typical component. But a direct sum of double complexes satisfies the page---property (resp. the -property) if and only if all summands do. ∎
2.2. Quotients of complex manifolds by finite groups
For a complex manifold with an action of a finite group , the quotient space has a canonical structure as a normal complex analytic space. Denoting by the projection, the structure sheaf on is described as . The singularities of are contained in the collection of all points with nontrivial stabilizer. On the other hand, the singularities in normal analytic spaces have codimension at least two and this inclusion is in general not an equality as the following example illustrates:
Example 2.6.
Let , acting by multiplication. Then the complex space is smooth: The map , identifies it with .
This example contains in some sense all the difference between the singular set and the set with nontrivial stabilizers: Recall that a matrix of finite order is called a quasi-reflection if , i.e, there is at most one eigenvalue not equal to 1 (including multiplicities), which then is a root of unity. A group is called small if it does not contain any quasi-reflections. Note that quasi-reflections have fixed point set of codimension . On the other hand, as a normal complex analytic space has singularities only in codimension . The following is a standard result, essentially the Chevalley-Shephard-Todd Theorem, see e.g. [Ben93, §7.2], [BG08].
Proposition 2.7.
Let be a complex manifold with an action of a finite group . The quotient is a manifold if and only if around every point there are invariant charts in which acts by quasi-reflections.
2.3. Smooth differential forms
Given a quotient of a complex manifold by a finite group, just as one defines holomorphic functions, one may also define sheaves of invariant holomorphic forms and smooth -valued functions and forms on the complex space by and . As on usual differential forms, these carry a real structure, a bigrading by type, differentials and a wedge product such that on every open set , the global sections form a bigraded, bidifferential algebra with real structure. Now, if the complex space is again a complex manifold, that gives us a priori a second notion of holomorphic, resp. smooth forms, namely those which are intrinsically defined from the manifold structure. Denote these by , resp. . The (local) pullbacks induce an injective map of sheaves and , compatible with real structure, bigrading, differentials and products. In general these maps are not isomorphisms:
Example 2.8.
Consider and as in Example 2.6. The function is a global section of , but it is not a global section of since it is not the pullback of any smooth function on via .
However, we have:
Proposition 2.9.
Let be non-singular. Then and both and are fine resolutions of .
Proof.
For holomorphic forms, this is a consequence of Proposition 2.7 and for this is the standard Poincaré Lemma. So, we only have to consider . To show that the sheaves are fine, we need to find partitions of unity for subordinate to any open cover of . This corresponds to finding -equivariant partitions of unity subordinate to the cover for , where is the projection map. These exist by an averaging argument. Next, we have to prove the exactness of
This follows from the usual Poincaré Lemma on because taking -invariants is exact (on stalks, this is a sequence of -vector spaces and one can average a given primitive to be -invariant.) ∎
Let us denote by and the double complexes of global sections. Then we obtain:
Corollary 2.10.
Let be non-singular. The inclusion of double complexes is a bigraded quasi-isomorphism.
We note that all the discussion here was local, and so one may immediately generalize the above statements to orbifolds (spaces which are locally of the form ), and the analogously defined sheaves and spaces of ’locally invariant forms’ :
Proposition 2.11.
Let be an orbifold with non-singular underlying complex space . Both and are fine resolutions of .
Corollary 2.12.
On an orbifold with smooth underlying complex space , the inclusion of double complexes is a bigraded quasi-isomorphism.
In this article, all orbifolds we encounter will be of ‘global quotient type’, i.e. of the form as before, so we omit a more detailed discussion.
3. Proof of Theorem A
Lemma 3.1.
Let be a compact complex manifold and an automorphism of finite order with fixed point set . Then,
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is a complex submanifold,
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(ii)
given an automorphism commuting with and a -stable submanifold , lifts to an automorphism of .
Proof.
Around a point , one may find an equivariant chart such that on , acts by a diagonal matrix of which the first eigenvalues are not equal to and the next are equal to . Thus, in this chart, the fixed point set is given by . This proves (i). Statement (ii) follows from the universal property of the blow-up.∎
Lemma 3.2.
In the situation of the previous Lemma, if the order of is or , there is a bimeromorphic -equivariant map which is finite sequence of blow-ups in smooth, -invariant centers such that is smooth.
Proof.
Let us work locally around a fixed point of and assume we are in a chart s.t. acts diagonally with nontrivial eigenvalues. We show that by blowing up we can reduce the until all local actions are by quasi-reflections, so that the quotient is smooth.
Assume first the order of is and the action is by a diagonal matrix on (an open set in) , with coordinates . We may assume , otherwise acts as a quasi-reflection. Then the blow up of the fixed point set is given by
which is covered by the invariant open sets with coordinates for and . Thus, the induced action of on is still diagonal, and in fact a reflection with only nontrivial eigenvalue in the -th position. As such, the quotient is smooth.
For the case that the order of is , we argue similarly. Write . Lets assume we are in a linear diagonal chart around a fixed point and has eigenvalues and eigenvalues , so after possibly reordering the coordinates we may assume is a diagonal matrix with entries . Again, denoting as above, we see that for , the induced action is given by a diagonal matrix with eigenvalues and for , the action is given by a diagonal matrix with eigenvalues . So we see that if or is zero the induced action is by quasi-reflections. If not, we can blow up the new fixed points again and repeat the argument. ∎
Remark 3.3.
Proof of Theorem A.
Without loss of generality, we may assume acts effectively. Pick an element in of order or . Then by the previous Lemmata, there exists a finite sequence of blow-ups in smooth invariant centers such that is smooth and a lift of the action of to making this an equivariant map. Now, by the blow-up formula, [Ste21b], [ASTT20], we have a -equivariant bigraded quasi-isomorphism with as in the theorem. Hence, taking -invariants, and using Cor. 2.10 there is a -equivariant quasi-isomorphism with as in the Theorem. Furthermore, has an action of , which has lower order, so the the theorem follows by induction. ∎
We will carry out the procedure in this proof explicitly in the first construction below.
Remark 3.4.
In the proof, the resolusion map is the composition of a sequence of maps such that each is a global quotient of a nonsingular space by for a subgroup and each map comes from a blow up at -invariant center. We should notice that may not be extended to a -equivariant blow-up. We may observe this matter in Construction I.
Remark 3.5.
Remark 3.6.
The structure of in (1) in Theorem A (resp. by (2) and (3)) one sees that (resp. any space with rational singularities) is further holomorphically simply connected in the sense of [Ste23] (i.e. connected and ) if and only if the (resp. any) resolution is holomorphically simply connected. The manifolds in constructions I, II, III below are also holomorphically simply connected. Note that there are simply connected spaces which are not holomorphically simply connected (e.g. the Calabi-Eckmann structures on products of spheres of odd dimension ).
Remark 3.7.
Quotient singularities are rational, and so for any resolution , one has
(2) |
Further, if is the inclusion, one may also define the differential forms on as . Then, again for any resolution, one has
(3) |
In both cases, the analogous isomorphisms in and continue to hold if one replaces by any complex space with rational singularities [KS21], [GKK10].
For the specific resolutions from Theorem A, the isomorphism (1) recovers (2) and (3) but, because satisfies further conditions than just , (1) contains finer information, also ‘away from the boundary’: For example, the numbers are preserved under the resolution, and so is the (non-)existence of nontrivial Frölicher differentials landing in degrees . This kind of finer information is crucially used in the following constructions. In view of (3) and (2) holding for all rational singularities and resolutions, it seems to be an interesting question in what generality the conclusion (1) of Theorem A remain valid.
4. Applications of Theorem A
4.1. Construction I
We will construct the manifolds as the resolution of Theorem A of a singular quotient of a certain solvmanifold .
Let such that
Quotients of by lattices are known as completely solvable Nakamura-manifolds and their cohomologies can be computed in terms of a finite dimensional sub double complex , see [AK17]. In general, the result will depend on the lattice , more precisely, on the value of . We will now construct a particular family of lattices , such that the corresponding manifolds admit an automorphism of order .
Let
We diagonalize
Take so that . Consider the discrete subgroup
Then for any and , and hence . For , with , is a lattice in . We denote by the resulting solvmanifold. We consider
as a biholomorphic automorphism of . Since
we have . The cyclic group acts on the solvmanifold biholomorphically and we obtain a (singular) complex quotient space depending on .
For , we also obtain a complex quotient space depending on .
There is a finite dimensional double complex such that the inclusion is a bigraded quasi-isomorphism. It was explicitly given in [AK17]. For us, only the -invariant part will be relevant, which we list below. Following [AK17], we distinguish three cases, depending on the value of :
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for some integer ;
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for some integer ;
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for any integer .
Proposition 4.1.
Proof.


Proposition 4.2.
The complex space is simply connected.
Proof.
We consider the fiber bundle . By the splitting , we have the section . The -action is compatible with this bundle structure. The action on the fiber is the standard involution on and the one on the base is trivial. Thus is a fiber bundle over a torus with the simply connected fiber . We have . Consider . The action of is compatible with the bundle structure on . The action on the base is the standard involution on . Since is simply connected, the quotient sends to the trivial group. Thus, by [Bre72, Corollary 6.3], is trivial. ∎
We now take to be resolutions as in Theorem A of the spaces . Since this modifies the bigraded quasi-isomorphism type of only by bicomplexes of points and curves, all of which satisfy the -Lemma, we conclude. For completeness, we give a more explicit description of the geometry of and the resolution procedure below:
4.1.1. Geometry of
Lemma 4.3.
( as a double mapping torus) The map induces an identification
where the basis element of acts by on and by on the right and the basis element acts by on and by the identity on the right. This identification is compatible with the fibre bundle projections to on both sides. The action of on the left is identified with the action of the matrix on the right.
Proof.
Follows from the definitions. ∎
Lemma 4.4 (description of the fixed point set).
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The action of on fixes exactly six curves . Under the projection , the curve maps isomorphically to the base torus and ,…, are –sheeted connected coverings. In particular, the fixed point set intersects the fibre of over each point in sixteen points. In appropriate local coordinates, the action around each fixed point looks like that of the diagonal matrix on .
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The action of interchanges and and and . It restricts to an action on and . The fixed point set consists of sixteen points, given by the intersection of with the fibres over , , and . In appropriate local coordinates, the action around each fixed point looks like that of the diagonal matrix on .
Proof.
We will identify with a double mapping torus as in Lemma 4.3. The action of on the base is trivial, so to compute the fixed points, we first consider its action in each fibre. There it is the multiplication by on a standard torus and the fixed points are given by the set
If the monodromy were trivial, we would thus have fixed curves of , each mapping isomorphically to the base. However, it is not trivial and so we have to compute its action on . Doing so, we find for example that it acts trivially on but has order three on other points, e.g.
etc. In summary, we obtain, slightly abusing notation:
We note that the projection to is equivariant with respect to and multiplication by . The latter has fixed points . All fixed points of on therefore have to lie in the fibres over the . The remaining assertions are straightforward to check. ∎
4.1.2. Explicit description of the resolution
We will do this in two steps, first resolving . For this, we consider the blow-up in all as in Lemma 4.4:
This has an induced action of and because it is in every fibre the Kummer-construction of a -surface, we obtain that is a locally trivial holomorphic -bundle (in particular, it is a manifold).
Let us look more closely at the local structure of : around any point we can find a -invariant open neighborhood around and a chart to some neighborhood of in with coordinates such that , and the action of corresponds to the diagonal action . Hence, a local model for is given by:
with -action
Thus, in the standard chart , with coordinates for , acts as
So, we see explicitly that the quotient by is smooth with local coordinates on given by . A similar discussion applies to the other chart .
With this at hand, we now turn to the induced action of on . Denote by the exceptional divisors corresponding to . Since interchanges and (resp. and ) the same holds for and (resp. and ). Thus, the fixed points can only lie on and . Let us thus assume that in the construction of the previous paragraph and is defined on a invariant open and identified the action of with the diagonal action . Then, a local model for the -action on is:
Thus the induced action on in the coordinates looks as follows:
(and similarly in the coordinates corresponding to ). Over every point , there thus lie four fixed points of , two on each of and , with local action given by multiplication by .
If one blows up such a point with local action , a local model for the blow-up is given by
and the induced action in the coordinates on given by is given by
Hence, again the quotient is smooth (with coordinates ). More globally, if we denote by the fixed points of on and set , then the induced map
is a resolution of singularities. Let us summarize the situation in a diagram:
Each leftmost horizontal map (resp. each composition of horizontal maps) is a resolution of singularities. Let us now use this to compute the bigraded quasi-isomorphism type of the double complex of forms on the manifold :
Since points and curves satisfy the -property, we see that the manifolds satisfy the statement in Construction I.
Remark 4.5.
Recall that a reduced compact complex space is in Fujiki’s class if it admits a compact Kähler modification. By Hironaka’s Flatting theorem, this condition is equivalent to being a meromorphic image of a compact Kähler space (see [Var89, Theorem 5]). The latter condition is the original definition of Fujiki in [Fuj78].
We notice that for any , is not in Fujiki’s class . If is in Fujiki’s class , then is a compact complex space in Fujiki’s class by the resolution and hence is a complex space in Fujiki’s class by [Fuj78, Lemma 4.6] since the quotient map is a Kähler morphism. This contradicts [AK14, Theorem 3.3] and [Has06, Main Theorem].
In [Fri19], Friedman constructs compact complex three dimensional -manifolds with second Betti numbers and trivial canonical bundles by using generalized Clemens construction. On our example , for any , we have and (see Appendix B) in particular the canonical bundle of is non-trivial.
4.2. Construction II
We proceed in a similar fashion to the previous section, constructing a simply connected, singular quotient of a complex -fold by a finite group with invariant forms having the property, then taking a resolution as in Theorem A. Since all points, curves and surfaces satisfy the -condition (c.f. [SW22]), this is sufficient.
Consider the nilpotent Lie group
and set , where has coordinates . Let and a (automatically cocompact) lattice in . Define . One obtains a basis of left-invariant differential forms on by
so that and otherwise. We may define a left-invariant complex structure on by . Putting , we thus obtain a complex of -valued left-invariant forms given by
The complex structure thus defined is nilpotent, and therefore the inclusion is a bigraded quasi-isomorphism [CFGU00].
Define an automorphism of by
On , this induces the action
Proposition 4.6.
The cdga satisfies the condition, but not the -condition.
Proof.
Since everything is explicitly defined, it is a routine calculation to compute the decomposition of into indecomposables. We give an explicit vector space basis for in Table 2 in the Appendix and the full decomposition in Figure 2. One can also be slightly more efficient as follows: First check that satisfies the -condition. Then necessarily satisfies the -condition since it is a tensor product with a -algebra. By Lemma 2.5, satisfies the -condition. It does not satisfy the usual -condition since e.g. the closed form is not cohomologous to a sum closed forms of pure-degree. ∎

Proposition 4.7.
The complex space is simply connected.
Proof.
Take as the base point. We can regard . We have the generators . By [Bre72, Corollary 6.3], for the quotient , it is sufficient to show is the unit element in . Since form a lattice in , by the standard argument is trivial for .
We consider the quotient map . It is sufficient to prove is the unit element in for . Consider the lattice generated by in . Then the fiber bundle has the section . commutes with the bundle structure. By the standard argument, is trivial and we can say that is the unit element for . Taking care of with a similar argument, the proposition follows. ∎
One may now conclude again by applying Theorem A to .
4.3. Construction III
4.3.1. Review of Bigalke-Rollenske’s examples
In [BR14], L. Bigalke and S. Rollenske produce, for any , a complex nilmanifold such that there is a nonzero differential on page of the Frölicher spectral sequence. A basis for the left-invariant -forms in these examples is given by:
and the differential is zero except on the ’s, where it is given by (for brevity, we omit all wedge-products)
Let
The differential on page then corresponds to the subcomplex given as follows:
This is indeed a subcomplex as
The proof in [BR14] shows that this subcomplex is even a direct summand in the double complex of all forms. Therefore the Frölicher spectral sequence of contains the Frölicher spectral sequence of as a direct summand and in one has , hence also in .
4.3.2. Definition of a group action
Define an automorphism of the algebra of left-invariant forms on via and . This corresponds to an automorphism of the Lie algebra of (since it is compatible with ) and hence induces one of . Because it respects the rational structure given by the real and imaginary parts of the , it respects a lattice of . We have , so the subcomplex is contained in the complex of invariant forms whenever .
Proposition 4.8.
The complex space is simply connected.
Proof.
Consider the coordinate
as [BR14]. Take as the base point. We can regard . By [Bre72, Corollary 6.3], for the quotient , it is sufficient to show is the unit element in for any . We have the fiber bundle with a fiber . Arguing on the fiber at , we can easily check that is the unit element for any . Consider the subgroup corresponding to or , other parameters. Then we have the fiber bundle with the -section . Since preserve this section and acts on as antipodes. Thus, we can say that is the unit element for any . By the same arguments on , , we can say that is the unit element for any .∎
One may now apply again Theorem A to the quotient (for and large enough) to conclude.
Appendix A Counterexamples to Popovici’s SKT conjecture
We keep the notations from section 4.3. We were not able to write down SKT-metrics on Rollenske’s examples directly, but let us modify them as follows: Keep all the forms as above and add and such that
Since is zero on all factors on the right hand side, adding these, we still have . In fact, the corresponding Lie-algebra with left-invariant complex structure is still two-step nilpotent with rational structure constants. In particular the corresponding Lie group admits some lattice by Malcev’s theorem and the Dolbeault cohomology of can be computed by left-invariant forms.
The claim is now that the subcomplex spanned by the and their differentials is still a direct summand (so that one still has a nonzero differential on ) and that there exists a left-invariant SKT-metric on
Define a left-invariant hermitian metric by its associated form as:
Using
one sees that this metric is SKT.
We still have to see that in the Frölicher spectral sequence for or equivalently that is a direct summand in the larger complex of all left-invariant forms on . Define a subcomplex as follows: In every with
(the positions of the and ), . In every bidegree , we set to be the subspace of all left-invariant forms generated by all elementary wedges of the basis elements and their conjugates, except for the or which lives in this bidegree. By construction as bigraded vector spaces, and it remains to show that this is really a subcomplex, i.e. that it is stable under the differential. From [BR14] we already know that differentials of forms containing no summands with -factors land again in . On the other hand, whenever is an elementary wedge of forms containing such a factor , writing its differential as a sum of elementary wedges we see that each of them is either a multiple of again, or a multiple of or of or of and therefore does not lie in but in . Thus, the is a subcomplex and the sum is one of double-complexes. As before, this implies that the Frölicher spectral sequence of is a direct summand in that of , hence on .
Remark A.1.
The method we used to produce an SKT metric works in greater generality. We have not tried to find the most general statement, but the following ad-hoc construction already yields many more examples: Consider any nilpotent Lie group with left-invariant almost complex structure s.t. we have a decomposition of the space of left-invariant -forms , such that and ( is thus -step nilpotent). Assume we are given a left-invariant metric such that for some basis of and a subset . Now construct a new Lie group , also carrying a left-invariant almost complex structure, by prescribing its space of left-invariant -forms as where has a basis element for each element in and . Then defined by is a pluriclosed metric on . Note that by construction is an extension of by an abelian subgroup. If we started with a nilmanifold , we may in this way obtain a torus bundle over which carries a pluriclosed metric.
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