Hello,
Here is a problem I encountered in the study of Kähler manifolds but there is a natural generalisation of this for topological spaces. If $X$ is a topological space, denote by $g_\mathbb{R}$ the real genus of $X$, that is the maximal dimension of an isotropic subspace in $H^1(X,\mathbb{R})$ (isotropic means that the cup-product restricted to this space is $0$). We can in the same way define $g_\mathbb{C}$ (here we take the complex dimension).
Now the question is : $g_\mathbb{C} = g_\mathbb{R}$ ?
This seems totally obvious : if one has a real isotropic space, then its complexification is a complex isotropic subspace but conversely I don't see how to construct a real isotropic subspace from a complex one.
This is true if $H^2$ has dimension $0$ or $1$ : $0$ is clear and for $1$ one can see the cup-product as a standard symplectic form (maybe degenerate), but in general ?
Thank you for your answers and sorry if I just missed something obvious.