Polar foliations on quaternionic projective spaces (Q1633882): Difference between revisions

In the paper, irreducible polar foliations of codimension $q$ on quaternionic projective spaces $HP^n,$ for all $(n,q)\ne(7,1)$, are classified. After the introduction, Section 2 surveys the construction of the quaternionic projective space and its Hopf fibration. In Section 3, the authors develop a method to study singular Riemannian foliations. Section 4 contains classification of quaternionic structures that preserve polar foliations on spheres. In Section 5, the authors prove (Theorems 1.1 and 1.2) that all irreducible polar foliations of any codimension (resp. of codimension one) on $HP^n$ are homogeneous if and only if $n+1$ is a prime number (resp. $n$ is even or $n=1$). In Section 6, they show existence of inhomogeneous polar foliations of $HP^n$.