Foliations with transversal quaternionic structures

Abstract: We consider manifolds equipped with a foliation

c a l F

of codimension

4 q

, and an almost quaternionic structure

Q

on the transversal bundle of

c a l F

. After discussing conditions of projectability and integrability of

Q

, we study the transversal twistor space

Z c a l F

which, by definition, consists of the

Q

-compatible almost complex structures. We show that

Z c a l F

can be endowed with a lifted foliation

h a t c a l F

and two natural almost complex structures

J_{1}

,

J_{2}

on the transversal bundle of

h a t c a l F

. We establish the conditions which ensure the projectability of

J_{1}

and

J_{2}

, and the integrability of

J_{1}

(

J_{2}

is never integrable).

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