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Almost complex structures on the orthogonal twistor bundle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Kichoon Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Arkansas State University, State University AR72467, United States of America
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Abstract

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We give a construction of 2s, s = n(n – 1)/2, many natural almost complex structures on the orthogonal twistor bundle over a 2n-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The usual almost complex structures are then characterised by the condition that they correspond to integrable invariant complex structures on the standard fibre which is identified with the hermitian symmetric space SO(2n)/U(n).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

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