On the integrability of co-CR quaternionic structures

Publication date 15 January 2016

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3124, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2016/22-1.html

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almost \(f\)-quaternionic manifolds almost co-CR quaternionic manifolds almost CR quaternionic manifolds quaternionic geometry twistor theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

Abstract: We characterise the integrability of any co-CR quaternionic structure in terms of the curvature and a generalized torsion of the connection. Also, we apply this result to obtain, for example, the following. (1) New co-CR quaternionic structures built on vector bundles over a quaternionic manifold M, whose twistor spaces are holomorphic vector bundles over the twistor space Z of M. Moreover, all the holomorphic vector bundles over Z, which are positive and isotypic when restricted to the twistor lines, are obtained this way. (2) Under generic dimensional conditions, any manifold endowed with an almost f-quaternionic structure and a compatible torsion free connection is, locally, a product of a hypercomplex manifold with some power of the space of imaginary quaternions.

Review text

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).

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