Hermitian metric

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In mathematics, a Hermitian metric g on a vector space with an almost complex structure J is a metric such that

g(\cdot, \cdot) = g(J\cdot, J\cdot).

A Hermitian metric on an almost complex vector bundle E over a manifold M, is a section of the bundle E2* which is a Hermitian metric at each point of M.

An important special case is that of a Hermitian metric on the complexified tangent bundle  TM \otimes \mathbb C of a complex manifold M. This is the hermitian analogue of a Riemannian metric. Every complex manifold admits such a hermitian metric.

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