On the twistor space of pseudo-spheres

Abstract

AbstractWe give a proof that the sphere S6 does not admit an integrable orthogonal complex structure using simple differential geometric methods. This appears as a corollary of a general analogous result concerning pseudo-spheres.We study the twistor space of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold in both the holomorphic and pseudo-Riemannian directions. In particular, we construct the twistor space of a pseudo-sphere S2q2n=SO2p+1,2q/SO2p,2q as a known pseudo-Kähler symmetric space. This leads to the explicit, unexpected computation of the exterior derivative of the Kähler form on the base manifold