Associated Nijenhuis Tensors on Manifolds with Almost Hypercomplex Structures and Metrics of Hermitian-Norden Type

Abstract

An associated Nijenhuis tensor of endomorphisms in the tangent bundle is introduced. Special attention is paid to such tensors for an almost hypercomplex structure and the metric of Hermitian-Norden type. There are studied relations between the six associated Nijenhuis tensors as well as their vanishing. It is given a geometric interpretation of the vanishing of these tensors as a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a unique connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion tensor. Similar idea is used in the paper of T. Friedrich and S. Ivanov in Asian J. Math. (2002) for some other structures. Finally, an example of a 4-dimensional manifold of the considered type with vanishing associated Nijenhuis tensors is given.