Conification of Kähler and hyper-Kähler manifolds (Q380329)

A Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) with a vector field \(\xi\) is called ``conical'' if \(D\xi= g\), where \(D\) is the Levi-Cività connection. Every such manifold is locally a product \(M= N\times\mathbb{R}^+\) with \(g= r^2g_N+ dr^2\) and \(\xi= r\partial_r\). The paper first constructs a ``conical'' Kähler manifold \(\widehat M\) from a Kähler manifold \(M\) with a Hamiltonian Killing vector field, such that \(M\) is a Kähler quotient of \(\widehat M\), called conification of \(M\). Then, \(\widetilde M= P\times\mathbb{R}^+\), where \(P\) is a principal \(S^1\)-bundle over \(M\), but the metric on \(\widetilde M\) is not a product and the projection \(\pi: \widetilde M\to M\) is not holomorphic. If \(M\) has a hyper-Kähler structure \((J_1, J_2, J_3, g)\) and \(\xi\) rotates \(J_2\) and \(J_3\), i.e., \({\mathcal L}_\xi J_2= -2J_3\), then there is a hyper-Kähler conification \(\widehat M\), where locally \(\widetilde M= P\times\mathbb{R}^3\). The main result is that \(\widehat M\) is a hyper-Kähler cone (or Swann bundle) over a quaternionic Kähler manifold which recovers the result of A. Haydis about QK/HK correspondence. The paper considers metrics of arbitrary signature and is motivated by the question of the characterization of the image of the physical c-map. Recently there is also an interpretation of the results of the present paper in terms of a twist construction [\textit{O. Macia} and \textit{A. Swann}, ``Twist geometry of the c-map'', \url{arxiv:1404.0785}].