Gray-Hervella classes on product twistor spaces

Abstract

Motivated by generalized geometry (in the sense of Hitchin), the product bundle ${\mathcal Z}\times_{M} {\mathcal Z}$ of the twistor space ${\mathcal Z}$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ is considered. The product twistor space admits a natural family of Riemannian metrics and four compatible almost complex structures, analogs of the Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer and Eells-Salamon almost complex structures on the twistor space. The Gray-Hervellal classes of these almost Hermitian structures are determined in the case when the dimension of the base manifold $M$ is four.