Quaternionic toric manifolds (Q2336011)

The aim of this paper is to introduce and study the notion of quaternionic toric manifolds. The starting point is the definition of the notion of 4-plectic manifold, originally introduced by \textit{P. Foth} in [J. Geom. Phys. 41, No. 4, 330--343 (2002; Zbl 1083.53080)], as a natural generalization of the notion of symplectic manifold. The authors develop a construction with which, starting from appropriate \(m\)-dimensional Delzant polytopes, they obtain manifolds of real dimension \(4m\), acted on by \(m\) copies of the group \(\mathrm{Sp}(1)\) of unit quaternions. These manifolds, are quaternionic regular in the sense of [the authors, Math. Nachr. 290, No. 2--3, 321--331 (2017; Zbl 1361.30086)] and can be endowed with a 4-plectic structure and a generalized moment map. Convexity properties of the image of the moment map are studied. Quaternionic toric manifolds appear to be a large enough class of examples where one can test and study new results in quaternionic geometry. The paper is organized as follows. In the second section the authors give the basic definitions and notions of 4-plectic manifolds and generalized Hamiltonian actions. In Section 3 they present a sub-convexity result and in Section 4 they describe the above mentioned procedure, providing necessity and sufficiency conditions under which it can be applied. Section 5 is devoted to study the 4-plectic reduction and the 4-plectic cut. In the last section the authors collect the obtained examples, they give the explicit form of the tri-moment map and consequently they obtain a convexity theorem for this class of examples. They finally make some remarks on the \(\mathbb{H}^*\) action and on the manifold \(G_2/\mathrm{SO}(4)\) which deserves further investigation.