Some conditions on real hypersurfaces in quaternionic projective spaces in terms of Lie derivatives (Q1977421)

A real hypersurface \(M\) of a quaternionic projective space \(QP^m\) endowed with a metric \(g\) of constant quaternionic sectional curvature 4 is considered. \(N\) is a normal vector field on \(M\), \(\{J_i\}\), \(i=1,2,3\), means the local basis of the quaternionic structure, \(U_i=-J_i N\) and \(\mathcal D^\bot=\operatorname{Span}\{U_1,U_2,U_3\}\) \(\phi_i\) are the structure tensors and \(A\) is the second fundamental tensor. It is proved that: 1) There does not exist such \(M\) if the Lie derivatives satisfy \(\mathcal L_{\mathcal D^\bot}\phi_i=f\phi_i\), \(f\in C^\infty(M)\). 2) If \(\mathcal L_{\mathcal D^\bot}A=0\) then \(M\) is locally a tube over a hyperplane (case a) or over a totally geodesic \(QP^k\) (case b). 3) Also \(\mathcal L_{\mathcal D^\bot}g=0\) yields the case b).