Hopf manifold

In complex geometry, a Hopf manifold (Hopf 1948) is obtained as a quotient of the complex vector space (with zero deleted)

by a free action of the group

acting by holomorphic contractions.

Here, a holomorphic contraction is a map

such that a sufficiently big iteration

maps any given compact subset of

onto an arbitrarily small neighbourhood of 0.

Two-dimensional Hopf manifolds are called Hopf surfaces.

is generated by a linear contraction, usually a diagonal matrix

Such manifold is called a classical Hopf manifold.

In fact, it is not even symplectic because the second cohomology group is zero.

Even-dimensional Hopf manifolds admit hypercomplex structure.

The Hopf surface is the only compact hypercomplex manifold of quaternionic dimension 1 which is not hyperkähler.