Isometries of quaternionic Lie groups (Q1580272)

In the present paper, the authors consider quaternionic Lie groups, i.e., connected Lie groups whose Lie algebra is obtained as tensor product of a real associative Lie algebra of finite dimension and the algebra \(H\) of quaternions. They prove that such Lie groups admit a natural integrable \(GL(n, H)\)-structure, so that they are locally affine. They endow quaternionic Lie groups with a left invariant Hermitian metric and prove that the resulting quaternionic Hermitian manifolds are not quaternionic Kähler, unless the group is abelian (i.e., the real associative Lie algebra is zero). They study the identity component of the isometry group of quaternionic Lie groups, illustrating their results with a family of examples.