New HKT manifolds arising from quaternionic representations

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Abstract: We give a procedure for constructing an 8n-dimensional HKT Lie algebra starting from a 4n-dimensional one by using a quaternionic representation of the latter. The strong (respectively, weak, hyper-K"ahler, balanced) condition is preserved by our construction. As an application of our results we obtain a new compact HKT manifold with holonomy in SL(n,BbbH) which is not a nilmanifold. We find in addition new compact strong HKT manifolds. We also show that every K"ahler Lie algebra equipped with a flat, torsion-free complex connection gives rise to an HKT Lie algebra. We apply this method to two distinguished 4-dimensional K"ahler Lie algebras, thereby obtaining two conformally balanced HKT metrics in dimension 8. Both techniques prove to be an effective tool for giving the explicit expression of the corresponding HKT metrics.


A hyper-Hermitian structure on a \(4n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) is given by a hypercomplex structure \(\{ J_ \alpha \}\), \(\alpha = 1,2,3\), and a Riemannian metric \(g\) compatible with \(J_{\alpha}\), for any \(\alpha\). The hyper-Hermitian manifold \((M, \{ J_ \alpha \}, g)\) is called hyper-Kähler with torsion (shortly HKT) if there exists a hyper-Hermitian connection \(\nabla^B\) whose torsion tensor \(c\) is a \(3\)-form. An HKT structure is called strong or weak according to whether the \(3\)-form \(c\) is closed or not. In four dimensions, any hyper-Hermitian structure is HKT, but in higher dimensions this is no longer true (see [\textit{M. L. Barberis, I. G. Dotti} and \textit{M. Verbitsky}, Math. Res. Lett. 16, No.~2--3, 331--347 (2006; Zbl 1178.32014); \textit{A. Fino} and \textit{Grantcharov}, Adv. Math. 189, No.~2, 439--450 (2004; Zbl 1114.53043)]). In the present paper, the authors give a procedure for constructing an \(8n\)-dimensional HKT Lie algebra starting from a \(4n\)-dimensional one by using a quaternionic representation of the latter. The construction preserves the strong (respectively, weak, hyper-Kähler, balanced) condition. As an application, they obtain new compact strong HKT manifolds and a new compact HKT manifold with holonomy contained in \(SL(n, H)\) which is not a nilmanifold. They also show that every Kähler Lie algebra equipped with a flat, torsion-free complex connection gives rise to an HKT Lie algebra, and they apply this method to two distinguished \(4\)-dimensional Kähler Lie algebras, thereby obtaining two conformally balanced HKT metrics in dimension \(8\).



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