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Autori principali: Pigazzini, Alexander, Toda, Magdalena
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author Pigazzini, Alexander
Toda, Magdalena
author_facet Pigazzini, Alexander
Toda, Magdalena
contents We establish a quantitative relationship between mixed de Rham classes and the geometric complexity of metric connections with totally skew torsion on product manifolds where both factors are compact oriented surfaces. For any cohomologically calibrated connection $\nabla^C$ whose torsion $T$ has pure bidegree with respect to the product decomposition and whose harmonic projection represents a non-trivial mixed class $[ω]$, we prove that on a non-empty open subset $\mathcal{V} \subset M$, \[ \dim\bigl(\mathfrak{hol}_p^{\mathrm{off}}(\nabla^{C})\bigr)\;\geq\; r^\sharp\;:=\;\operatorname{rank}_{\mathbb{R}}\bigl([ω]_{\mathrm{mixed}}\bigr)-\dim\mathcal{K}, \] with $\mathcal{K}$ an intrinsically defined obstruction space. The bound is a topological invariant under metric deformations preserving the parallel-form strata and provides an obstruction to reducible holonomy. Counterexamples show the hypothesis is optimal.
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spellingShingle Cohomological Calibration and Curvature Constraints on Product Manifolds: A Topological Lower Bound
Pigazzini, Alexander
Toda, Magdalena
Differential Geometry
Algebraic Topology
53C05, 53C07, 53C29, 58A14, 57R19, 15A69
We establish a quantitative relationship between mixed de Rham classes and the geometric complexity of metric connections with totally skew torsion on product manifolds where both factors are compact oriented surfaces. For any cohomologically calibrated connection $\nabla^C$ whose torsion $T$ has pure bidegree with respect to the product decomposition and whose harmonic projection represents a non-trivial mixed class $[ω]$, we prove that on a non-empty open subset $\mathcal{V} \subset M$, \[ \dim\bigl(\mathfrak{hol}_p^{\mathrm{off}}(\nabla^{C})\bigr)\;\geq\; r^\sharp\;:=\;\operatorname{rank}_{\mathbb{R}}\bigl([ω]_{\mathrm{mixed}}\bigr)-\dim\mathcal{K}, \] with $\mathcal{K}$ an intrinsically defined obstruction space. The bound is a topological invariant under metric deformations preserving the parallel-form strata and provides an obstruction to reducible holonomy. Counterexamples show the hypothesis is optimal.
title Cohomological Calibration and Curvature Constraints on Product Manifolds: A Topological Lower Bound
topic Differential Geometry
Algebraic Topology
53C05, 53C07, 53C29, 58A14, 57R19, 15A69
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11834