Quaternionic Transformations of a Non-Positive Quaternionic Kähler Manifold

DOI10.1142/S0129167X97000147MaRDI QIDQ4349842zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Marchiafava, Dmitri Alekseevsky

Publication date 21 November 1997

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129167x97000147

zbMATH Keywords

hyperkähler manifolds infinitesimal transformations quaternionic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Review text

The authors study some properties of the quaternionic transformations of a quaternion Kähler manifold \((M,g,Q)\). Denote by Aut\((M,Q)\) and Aut\((M,Q,g)\) the groups of quaternionic transformations of \(M\) and quaternionic isometries of \(M\), respectively. Denote by Aut\((M,Q)_0\), Aut\((M,Q,g)_0\) their connected components of unity. The main result is Theorem 1: Let \((M,g,Q)\) be a simply connected quaternionic Kähler \(4n\)-manifold (\(n>1\)). Assume that Aut\((M,Q)_0\neq \) Aut\((M,Q,g)_0\). If \(M\) is compact, it is isometric to the quaternionic projective space with the standard quaternionic structure. If \(M\) is not compact, it has zero scalar curvature and its de Rham decomposition has a Euclidean factor \(({\mathbb{H}}^k,g_0,Q_0), \;k>0\). The converse is also true. The authors find the structure of the Ricci flat \(Q\)-Kähler metrics with reduced scalar curvature \(\nu >0\). If \((M,g,Q)\) is simply connected, complete, and has no flat de Rham factor, then any \(1\)-parameter group of transformations on \(M\) preserving \(Q\) also preserves the metric.

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