In mathematics, an almost complex manifold is a smooth manifold equipped with a smooth linear complex structure on each tangent space. Every complex manifold is an almost complex manifold, but there are almost complex manifolds that are not complex manifolds. Almost complex structures have important applications in symplectic geometry.
The concept is due to Charles Ehresmann and Heinz Hopf in the 1940s.[1]
^Van de Ven, A. (June 1966). "On the Chern numbers of certain complex and almost complex manifolds". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 55 (6): 1624–1627. Bibcode:1966PNAS...55.1624V. doi:10.1073/pnas.55.6.1624. PMC 224368. PMID 16578639.
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