On the integrability of co-CR quaternionic structures (Q903732)

In this paper, the author considers the integrability of various generalized almost quaternionic manifolds. More precisely, recall that -- following the author's convention -- a quaternionic vector bundle over a manifold is a vector bundle carrying a left \(\mathrm{Sp}(1)\cdot\mathrm{Gl}(n,{\mathbb H})\)-structure, i.e., whose typical fibers \({\mathbb H}^n\) are acted upon by \(\mathrm{Sp}(1)\) from the left and by \(\mathrm{Gl}(n,{\mathbb H})\) from the right such that the whole action is a left action. There also exists an associated twistor space which is a \(2\)-sphere bundle over the manifold with the property that the \(2\)-spheres constituting the fibers correspond to the moduli spaces of compatible fiberwise (i.e., linear) complex structures on the quaternionic vector bundle. For example if the quaternionic vector bundle is taken to be the tangent bundle then one obtains an almost quaternionic manifold. This structure admits two natural generalizations called \textit{almost CR quaternionic manifolds} and \textit{almost co-CR quaternionic manifolds} characterized by certain structure-preserving vector bundle morphisms between the given quaternionic vector bundle and the tangent bundle of the manifold (for a precise definition see the beginning of Section 2). The main result in the paper is an integrability theorem for almost co-CR quaternionic manifolds in terms of their twistor spaces together with the curvature and the generalized torsion of a compatible connection on the initial quaternionic vector bundle (see Theorem 2.2). A natural integrable almost co-CR quaternionic manifold, i.e., a co-CR quaternionic manifold together with its twistor space is also exhibited (Theorem 2.3). In addition to these the author considers the integrability of so-called \textit{almost \(f\)-quaternionic manifolds} as well which are manifolds carrying both an almost CR and an almost co-CR quaternionic structure in a compatible manner (cf. Section 3).