Joint IAS-PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Bihermitian Metrics and Poisson Deformations
Nigel Hitchin
Oxford University
Date & Time: 
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
Fine Hall -- Room 322

A bihermitian metric (or generalized Kahler structure) involves a pair of complex structures and a metric compatible with both. The study of these is closely related to that of holomorphic Poisson structures on a manifold. A deformation theorem for such complex Poisson manifolds leads to a concrete description of certain pairs of complex structures and we show how these can generate bihermitian metrics.