A remark on the Bismut–Ricci form on 2-step nilmanifolds

Abstract

In this note, we observe that, on a 2-step nilpotent Lie group equipped with a left-invariant SKT structure, the (1,1)-part of the Bismut–Ricci form is seminegative definite. As an application, we give a simplified proof of the non-existence of invariant SKT static metrics on 2-step nilmanifolds and of the existence of a long-time solution to the pluriclosed flow in 2-step nilmanifolds.