On the infinitesimal automorphisms of quaternionic structures

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Authors Paolo Piccinni

Publication date 31 October 1995

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(G\)-structurescharacteristic numbershyperkähler manifoldsinfinitesimal automorphismsquaternion Kähler manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

Let \(G\) be any of the quaternionic linear groups \(\text{GL} (n,\mathbb{H})\), \(\text{GL} (n,\mathbb{H}) \text{Sp} (1)\) or of their compact subgroups \(\text{Sp} (n)\), \(\text{Sp} (n) \text{Sp}(1)\); let \(a (M)\) denote the infinitesimal automorphisms for any of the first two \(G\)-structures and \(a(M,g)\) for any of the last two on a \(4n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\). The comparison between \(a(M)\) and \(a(M,g)\) is discussed on hyperkähler and quaternion Kähler manifolds \(M\). In particular the vanishing of \(a(M)\) is proved on compact quaternion Kähler manifolds with negative scalar curvature and on irreducible compact hyperkähler manifolds. On compact quaternion Kähler \(M\) with positive scalar curvature a formula of Bott type is proved relating the behaviour around the zeros of the infinitesimal automorphisms with the symplectic Pontryagin characteristic numbers.

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