Some characterizations of quaternionic space forms

DOI10.3792/PJAA.76.168MaRDI QIDQ5928552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Toshiaki Adachi, Sadahiro Maeda

Publication date 29 March 2001

Published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3792/pjaa.76.168

zbMATH Keywords

constant quaternionic sectional curvaturegeodesic spheresquaternionic Kähler manifoldsquaternionic space forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The authors prove that any of the following two properties characterize quaternionic space forms in the class of quaternionic Kähler manifolds \(M\): NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE1) \(R(X,JX)X\) is proportional to \(JX\) for all tangent vectors \(X\in T_pM\) to \(M\) and all complex structures \(J\) on \(T_pM\) subordinate to the quaternionic structure. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE2) Geodesics in geodesic spheres \(S \subset M\) of sufficiently small radius are circles of positive curvature in \(M\) provided that their velocity vector field is perpendicular to the maximal quaternionic distribution in \(S\). The complex analogues of these two results were proven, respectively, by \textit{E. Kosmanek} [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 259, 705-708 (1964; Zbl 0122.16704)] and in previous work of the authors [Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 62, No. 2, 205-210 (2000; Zbl 0978.53071)].

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