Conformal quaternionic contact curvature and the local sphere theorem

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2009.11.002zbMATH Open1194.53044arXiv0707.1289OpenAlexW2056055123WikidataQ125895329 ScholiaQ125895329MaRDI QIDQ963014FDOQ963014

Authors: Stefan Ivanov, Dimiter Vassilev 

Publication date: 8 April 2010

Published in: Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A tensor invariant is defined on a quaternionic contact manifold in terms of the curvature and torsion of the Biquard connection involving derivatives up to third order of the contact form. This tensor, called quaternionic contact conformal curvature, is similar to the Weyl conformal curvature in Riemannian geometry and to the Chern-Moser tensor in CR geometry. It is shown that a quaternionic contact manifold is locally quaternionic contact conformal to the standard flat quaternionic contact structure on the quaternionic Heisenberg group, or equivalently, to the standard 3-sasakian structure on the sphere iff the quaternionic contact conformal curvature vanishes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1289

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zbMATH Keywords

Biquard connectionlocally flat quaternionic contactquaternionic contact conformal curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

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