Calabi-Yau structures on the complexifications of rank two symmeric spaces

TL;DR

This paper establishes the existence of invariant Calabi-Yau structures on the complexifications of rank two symmetric spaces, providing a new proof relating complex Hessians and shape operators, with implications for anti-Kaehler geometry.

Contribution

It offers a new proof connecting the complex Hessian of a plurisubharmonic function to the Hessian of a convex function via orbit geometry, and proves the existence of Calabi-Yau structures on complexified rank two symmetric spaces.

Findings

A new proof of the relation between complex Hessian and Hessian of convex functions.

Existence of a $C^{ abla}$-Calabi-Yau structure on complexifications of rank two symmetric spaces.

Implications for invariant Calabi-Yau structures on anti-Kaehler manifolds.

Abstract

For a (Reimannian) symmetric space $G/K$ of compact type, the natural action of $G$ on its complexification $G^{\mathbb C}/K^{\mathbb C}$ (which is an anti-Kaehler symmetric space) is one of the isometric actions called ``Hermann type action''. Let $\psi$ be the $G$-invariant strictly plurisubharmonic $C^{\infty}$-function on an open set of $G^{\mathbb C}/K^{\mathbb C}$ arising from a $W$-invariant strictly convex $C^{\infty}$-function $\rho$ on an open set of a maximal abelian subspace $\mathfrak a^d$ of $\mathfrak p^d$, where $\mathfrak p^d$ is the subspace of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak g^d$ of $G^d$ such that $\mathfrak g^d=\mathfrak k\oplus\mathfrak p^d$ gives the Cartan decomposition associated to the dual symmetric space $G^d/K$ of $G/K$ and $W$ is the Weyl group assocaited to $\mathfrak a^d$. In this paper, we first give a new proof of a known relation between the complex Hessian of $\psi$ and the Hessian of $\rho$. This new proof is performed from the viewpoint of the orbit geometry of the Hermann type action $G\curvearrowright G^{\mathbb C}/K^{\mathbb C}$. In more detail, it is performed by using the explicit descriptions of the shape operators of the orbits of the isotropy action $K\curvearrowright G^d/K$ and the Hermann type action $G\curvearrowright G^{\mathbb C}/K^{\mathbb C}$. Next we prove that there exists a $C^{\infty}$-Calabi-Yau structure on the whole of the complexification $G^{\mathbb C}/K^{\mathbb C}$ in the case where $G/K$ is of rank two on the basis of this relation. In the future, the above new proof will be useful to investigate the existence of invariant Calabi-Yau structure on an anti-Kaehler manifold equipped with a certain kind of complex hyperpolar action in more general, where we note that Hermann type actions are complex hyperpolar.