Twistor space of a generalized quaternionic manifold (Q2024771)

To any almost quaternionic manifold \((M,\mathcal Q)\), where \(\mathcal Q\subset \operatorname{End}(TM)\) is the rank-three bundle encoding the almost quaternionic structure, we can associate its twistor space \(\mathcal Z\). Any connection \(\nabla\) on \(M\) compatible with \(\mathcal Q\) naturally induces an almost complex structure on \(\mathcal Z\). The necessary and sufficient conditions on \(\nabla\) for the integrability of this almost complex structure can be neatly formulated in terms of the associated torsion and curvature tensors. The main aim of this article is to prove an analogue of this result in the setting of generalized geometry. The author builds on work of \textit{R. Pantilie} [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 193, No. 3, 633--641 (2014; Zbl 1312.53105)], who introduced generalized quaternionic manifolds and proposed a definition of the corresponding twistor spaces. With these definitions, any connection \(\nabla\) on the generalized tangent bundle \(\mathbb TM=TM\oplus T^*M\) of a generalized almost quaternionic manifold \((M,\mathcal Q)\) that is compatible with \(\mathcal Q\) induces a generalized almost complex structure on its twistor space. These concepts are reviewed in detail in the first half of the article. In order to study the integrability of the generalized almost complex structure \(\mathbb J\), the author extends \(\nabla\) to a generalized connection \(\mathcal D\) on \(\mathbb T M\). The content of the main theorem, then, is that the integrability of \(\mathbb J\) is equivalent to formally precisely the same conditions as in the classical setting, only now applied to the generalized torsion and curvature tensors of \(\mathcal D\). The proof is by an explicit computation of the Nijenhuis tensor. In the final section of the article some special cases are considered, including generalized hyper-Kähler manifolds.