This research reveals a topological lower bound on curvature in product manifolds, suggesting new insights into geometric complexity.
We establish a quantitative relationship between mixed cohomology classes and the geometric complexity of cohomologically calibrated metric connections with totally skew torsion on product manifolds. Extending the results of Pigazzini--Toda (2025), we show that the dimension of the off-diagonal curvature subspace of a connection ∇C is bounded below by the sum of tensor ranks of the mixed Künneth components of its calibration class. The bound depends only on the mixed class [ω]mixed∈ H³(M;R), hence is topological and independent of the chosen product metric. This provides a computational criterion for geometric complexity and quantifies the interaction between topology and curvature, yielding a quantified version of ``forced irreducibility'' via the dimension of holₚᵒᶠᶠ(∇C).
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Pigazzini et al. (2025) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: