Nijenhuis operators on Banach homogeneous spaces

Abstract

For a Banach--Lie group $G$ and an embedded Lie subgroup $K$ we consider the homogeneous Banach manifold $\mathcal M=G/K$. In this context we establish the most general conditions for a bounded operator $N$ acting on $Lie(G)$ to define a homogeneous vector bundle map $\mathcal N:T\mathcal M\to T\mathcal M$. In particular our considerations extend all previous settings on the matter and are well-suited for the case where $Lie(K)$ is not complemented in $Lie(G)$. We show that the vanishing of the Nijenhuis torsion for a homogeneous vector bundle map $\mathcal N:T\mathcal M\to T\mathcal M$ (defined by an admissible bounded operator $N$ on $Lie(G)$) is equivalent to the Nijenhuis torsion of $N$ having values in $Lie(K)$. As an application, we consider the question of integrability of an almost complex structure $\mathcal J$ on $\mathcal M$ induced by an admissible bounded operator $J$, and we give a simple characterization of integrability in terms of certain subspaces of the complexification of $Lie(G)$ (which are not eigenspaces of the complex extension of $J$).