Harmonic symmetries for Hermitian manifolds

Abstract

Complex manifolds with compatible metric have a naturally defined subspace of harmonic differential forms that satisfy Serre, Hodge, and conjugation duality, as well as hard Lefschetz duality. This last property follows from a representation of $sl(2,\mathbb{C})$, generalizing the well known structure on the harmonic forms of compact K\"ahler manifolds. Some topological implications are deduced.