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We introduce the notion of a tt*-bundle. It provides a simple definition, purely in terms of real differential geometry, for geometric structures which are solutions of a general version of the equations of topological-anti a topological fusion considered by Cecotti–Vafa, Dubrovin and Hertling. Then we give a simple characterization of the tangent bundles of special complex and special Kähler manifolds as particular types of tt*-bundles. We illustrate the relation between metric tt*-bundles of rank r and pluriharmonic maps into the pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaceGL(r)/O(p, q) in the case of a specialKähler manifold of signature (p, q) = (2k, 2l). It is shown that the pluriharmonic map coincides with the dual Gauss map, which is a holomorphic map into the pseudo-Hermitian symmetric space Sp(ℝ2n)/U(k, l) ⊂ SL(2n)/SO(p, q) ⊂ GL(2n)/O(p, q), where n = k + l.
This work was supported by the’ schwerpunktprogramm Stringtheorie’ of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Research of L. S. was supported by a joint grant of the ‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst’ and the CROUS Nancy-Metz.
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Cortés, V., Schäfer, L. (2005). Topological-antitopological Fusion Equations, Pluriharmonic Maps and Special Kähler Manifolds. In: Kowalski, O., Musso, E., Perrone, D. (eds) Complex, Contact and Symmetric Manifolds. Progress in Mathematics, vol 234. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4424-5_5
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