A class of cubic hypersurfaces and quaternionic Kähler manifolds of co-homogeneity one (Q2236432)

This article features a classification of all complete projective special real manifolds with reducible cubic potential. These are obtained by the r-map of [\textit{B. de Wit} and \textit{A. Van Proeyen}, Comm. Math. Phys., 149, No.~2, 307--333 (1992; Zbl 0824.53043)] from hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) contained in the level set \(\{h = 1\}\) of a reducible homogeneous cubic polynomial \(h\) and such that \(-\frac{1}{3}\partial^2h\) induces a Riemannian metric. Via the c-map of [\textit{S. Ferrara} and \textit{S. Sabharwal}, ``Quaternionic manifolds for type II superstring vacua of Calabi-Yau spaces'', Nucl. Phys., B332, No. 2, 317--332 (1990)] they give rise to the quaternionic Kähler manifolds referred to in the title. The classification result claims existence of four series, each depending on the dimension \(n\) and extends results for \(n = 2\) of [\textit{V. Cortés} et al., Proc. London Math. Soc. (3), 109, No. 2, 423--445 (2014; Zbl 1305.53052)]. The four series provide examples of quaternionic Kähler manifolds with interesting properties. In particular, the manifolds of the fourth series are complete, of negative scalar curvature, and have an isometry group that acts with co-homogeneity one. Along the proof of this latter result, the authors provide curvature formulas for quaternionic Kähler manifolds obtained by the composition of r-map and c-map.