Submaximally symmetric almost quaternionic structures

DOI10.1007/S00031-017-9453-6MaRDI QIDQ1757164zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henrik Winther, Lenka Zalabová, Boris Kruglikov

Publication date 2 January 2019

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02025

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry algebraalmost quaternionic structuresymmetry dimensionquaternionic Weyl curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The symmetry dimension of a geometric structure is the dimension of its symmetry algebra. We investigate symmetries of almost quaternionic structures of quaternionic dimension $n$. The maximal possible symmetry is realized by the quaternionic projective space $mathbbH{P}^n$, which is flat and has the symmetry algebra $mathfraksl(n+1,mathbbH)$ of dimension $4n^2+8n+3$. For non-flat almost quaternionic manifolds we compute the next biggest (submaximal) symmetry dimension. We show that it is equal to $4n^2-4n+9$ for $n>1$ (it is equal to 8 for $n=1$). This is realized both by a quaternionic structure (torsion--free) and by an almost quaternionic structure with vanishing quaternionic Weyl curvature.

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