On some Grassmannians carrying an even Clifford structure

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2018.04.007MaRDI QIDQ1636015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paolo Piccinni

Publication date 1 June 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01751

zbMATH Keywords

even Clifford structureGrassmannianoctonionic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

Abstract: We give an explicit description of the non-flat parallel even Clifford structures of rank 8, 6, 5 on some real, complex and quaternionic Grassmannians, and discuss the r^ole of the octonions in them, in particular for some low dimensional examples.

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