On quaternionic contact Fefferman spaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2010.04.001MaRDI QIDQ980895zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jesse Alt

Publication date 8 July 2010

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1849

zbMATH Keywords

parabolic geometryconformal holonomyFefferman spacesquaternionic contact manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

Abstract: We investigate the Fefferman spaces of conformal type which are induced, via parabolic geometry, by the quaternionic contact (qc) manifolds introduced by O.Biquard. Equivalent characterizations of these spaces are proved: as conformal manifolds with symplectic conformal holonomy of the appropriate signature; as pseudo-Riemannian manifolds admitting conformal Killing fields satisfying a conformally invariant system of conditions analog to G. Sparling's criteria; and as the total space of a SO(3)- or $S^3$-bundle over a qc manifold with the conformally equivalent metrics defined directly by Biquard. Global as well as local results are acquired.

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