Canonical connections attached to generalized hypercomplex and biparacomplex structures

DOI10.1007/S13398-023-01485-9zbMATH Open1528.53026arXiv2302.05239OpenAlexW4384927262MaRDI QIDQ6137736FDOQ6137736

Authors: Adara M. Blaga, Antonella Nannicini 

Publication date: 4 September 2023

Published in: Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A: Matemáticas. RACSAM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We put into light some generalized almost quaternionic and almost para-quaternionic structures and characterize their integrability with respect to a $abla$-bracket on the generalized tangent bundle $TMoplus{T}^{*}M$ of a smooth manifold $M$, defined by an affine connection $abla$ on $M$. Also, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for these structures to be $hatabla$-parallel and $hatabl{a}^{*}$-parallel, where $hatabla$ is an affine connection on $TMoplus{T}^{*}M$ induced by $abla$, and $hatabl{a}^{*}$ is its generalized dual connection with respect to a bilinear form $checkh$ on $TMoplus{T}^{*}M$ induced by a non-degenerate symmetric or skew-symmetric $(0,2)$-tensor field $h$ on $M$. As main results, we establish the existence of a canonical connection associated to a generalized quaternionic and to a generalized para-quaternionic structure, i.e., a torsion-free generalized affine connection that parallelizes these structures. We show that, in the quaternionic case, the canonical connection is the generalized Obata connection and that on a quasi-statistical manifold $(M,h,abla)$, an integrable $h$-symmetric and $abla$-parallel $(1,1)$-tensor field gives rise to a generalized para-quaternionic structure whose canonical connection is precisely $hatabl{a}^{*}$. Finally we prove that the generalized affine connection that parallelizes certain families of generalized almost complex and almost product structures is preserved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05239

zbMATH Keywords

affine connectionshypercomplex structuresbiparacomplex structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometric aspects of statistical manifolds and information geometry (53B12)

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