A new positivity condition for the curvature of Hermitian manifolds

Abstract

In this note, we introduce a new type of positivity condition for the curvature of a Hermitian manifold, which generalizes the notion of nonnegative quadratic orthogonal bisectional curvature to the non-Kahler case. We derive a Bochner formula for closed (1, 1)-forms from which this condition appears naturally and prove that if a Hermitian manifold satisfies our positivity condition, then any class $$\alpha \in H^{1, 1}_{BC}(X)$$ can be represented by a closed (1, 1)-form which is parallel with respect to the Bismut connection. Lastly, we show that such a curvature positivity condition holds on certain generalized Hopf manifolds and on certain Vaisman manifolds.