On the existence of local quaternionic contact geometries

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Authors Ivan Minchev, Jan Slovák

Publication date 8 October 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09420, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2020/26-45.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Cartan connectionequivalence probleminvolutionquaternionic contact

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70)

Abstract: We exploit the Cartan-K"ahler theory to prove the local existence of real analytic quaternionic contact structures for any prescribed values of the respective curvature functions and their covariant derivatives at a given point on a manifold. We show that, in a certain sense, the different real analytic quaternionic contact geometries in $4n+3$ dimensions depend, modulo diffeomorphisms, on $2n+2$ real analytic functions of $2n+3$ variables.

Review text

The notion of a quaternionic contact (qc) manifold was introduced by \textit{O. Biquard} [Métriques d'Einstein asymptotiquement symétriques. Paris: Société Mathématique de France (2000; Zbl 0967.53030)] as the quaternionic counterpart of the notion of a pseudo-Hermitian manifold. Most known examples of qc manifolds come from 3-Sasakian structures. In this paper, the authors reformulate the problem of local existence of qc structures as a problem of existence of integral manifolds of an appropriate exterior differential system. They prove the local existence of real analytic qc structures for any prescribed values of the respective curvature functions and their covariant derivatives at a given point on a manifold. They apply methods from the Cartan-Kähler theory and show the integrability of the exterior differential system.

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