PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, cilt.217, sa.2, ss.291-302, 2004 (SCI-Expanded)
We investigate, for a given smooth closed manifold M, the existence of an algebraic model X for M (i.e., a nonsingular real algebraic variety diffeomorphic to M) such that some nonsingular projective complexification i:X-->X-C of X admits a retraction r:X-C-->X. If such an X exists, we show that M must be formal in the sense of Sullivan's minimal models, and that all rational Massey products on M are trivial.