Maximally non-integrable almost complex structures: an h-principle and cohomological properties
R.M.F. Coelho, Giovanni Placini, Jonas Stelzig
Abstract
Abstract We study almost complex structures with lower bounds on the rank of the Nijenhuis tensor. Namely, we show that they satisfy an h -principle. As a consequence, all parallelizable manifolds and all manifolds of dimension $$2n\ge 10$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>≥</mml:mo> <mml:mn>10</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> (respectively $$\ge 6$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>≥</mml:mo> <mml:mn>6</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> ) admit a almost complex structure whose Nijenhuis tensor has maximal rank everywhere (resp. is nowhere trivial). For closed 4-manifolds, the existence of such structures is characterized in terms of topological invariants. Moreover, we show that the Dolbeault cohomology of non-integrable almost complex structures is often infinite dimensional (even on compact manifolds).