On compact affine quaternionic curves and surfaces (Q2659028): Difference between revisions

This paper is written for specialists in complex and hypercomplex (quaternionic) geometry. It studies affine quaternionic manifolds, compact affine quaternionic curves and surfaces. Section 1 introduces affine quaternionic manifolds, especially for quaternionic dimensions 2 and 4. Section 2 first relates quaternionic and complex matrices and defines a quaternionic affine structure for \(4n\)-dimensional real differentiable manifolds. An important role is played by freely acting and properly discontinuous subgroups of quaternionic affine transformations over \(\mathbb{H}^n\), and their quotient spaces. It is found that an affine quaternionic manifold has one and only one affine quaternionic structure. Section 3 works towards the classification of affine quaternionic manifolds in low dimensions. Important are quaternionic right eigenvalues of \(n\times n\) quaternionic matrices. Further study is done for \(n=2\) subgroups of quaternionic affine transformations. A key result is Theorem 3.18 relating freely and properly discontinuously acting subgroups of quaternionic affine transformations (\(n=2\)) wih a unipotent normal subgroup of finite index, such that the quotient of the two is isomorphic to a finite subgroup of \(\mathbb{S}^3\), followed by an example. Finally, Section 4 treats the abelian case, where real, complex and quaternionic Heisenberg groups of matrices play an essential role.