A class of cubic hypersurfaces and quaternionic Kähler manifolds of co-homogeneity one

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Abstract: We classify all complete projective special real manifolds with reducible cubic potential, obtaining four series. For two of the series the manifolds are homogeneous, for the two others the respective automorphism group acts with co-homogeneity one. Complete projective special real manifolds give rise to complete quaternionic K"ahler manifolds via the supergravity q-map, which is the composition of the supergravity c-map and r-map. We develop curvature formulas for manifolds in the image of the q-map. Applying the q-map to one of the above series of projective special real manifolds, we obtain a series of complete quaternionic K"ahler manifolds, which are shown to be inhomogeneous (of co-homogeneity one) based on our curvature formulas.


This article features a classification of all complete projective special real manifolds with reducible cubic potential. These are obtained by the r-map of [\textit{B. de Wit} and \textit{A. Van Proeyen}, Comm. Math. Phys., 149, No.~2, 307--333 (1992; Zbl 0824.53043)] from hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) contained in the level set \(\{h = 1\}\) of a reducible homogeneous cubic polynomial \(h\) and such that \(-\frac{1}{3}\partial^2h\) induces a Riemannian metric. Via the c-map of [\textit{S. Ferrara} and \textit{S. Sabharwal}, ``Quaternionic manifolds for type II superstring vacua of Calabi-Yau spaces, Nucl. Phys., B332, No. 2, 317--332 (1990)] they give rise to the quaternionic Kähler manifolds referred to in the title. The classification result claims existence of four series, each depending on the dimension \(n\) and extends results for \(n = 2\) of [\textit{V. Cortés} et al., Proc. London Math. Soc. (3), 109, No. 2, 423--445 (2014; Zbl 1305.53052)]. The four series provide examples of quaternionic Kähler manifolds with interesting properties. In particular, the manifolds of the fourth series are complete, of negative scalar curvature, and have an isometry group that acts with co-homogeneity one. Along the proof of this latter result, the authors provide curvature formulas for quaternionic Kähler manifolds obtained by the composition of r-map and c-map.











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