The conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric on a $4n$-manifold with boundary is a codimension $3$ distribution on the boundary called quaternionic contact. In dimensions $4n-1$ greater than $7$, a quaternionic contact structure is always the conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric. On the contrary, in dimension $7$, we prove a criterion for quaternionic contact structures to be the conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric. This allows us to find the quaternionic-contact structures...

Building on a recent paper [8], here we argue that the combinatorics of matroids are intimately related to the geometry and topology of toric hyperkähler varieties. We show that just like toric varieties occupy a central role in Stanley’s proof for the necessity of McMullen’s conjecture (or g-inequalities) about the classification of face vectors of simplicial polytopes, the topology of toric hyperkähler varieties leads to new restrictions on face vectors of matroid complexes. Namely in this paper...

Let $(M,J^{\alpha },\alpha =1,2,3)$ and $(N,{𝒥}^{\alpha },\alpha =1,2,3)$ be hyperkähler manifolds. We study stationary quaternionic maps between $M$ and $N$. We first show that if there are no holomorphic 2-spheres in the target then any sequence of stationary quaternionic maps with bounded energy subconverges to a stationary quaternionic map strongly in $W^{1,2}(M,N)$. We then find that certain tangent maps of quaternionic maps give rise to an interesting minimal 2-sphere. At last we construct a stationary quaternionic map with a codimension-3 singular set by using the embedded...

The aim of this paper is to give an easy explicit description of 3-K-contact structures on certain SO(3)-principal fibre bundles over quaternionic-Kähler manifolds.

Lee, Kim and Suh (2012) gave a characterization for real hypersurfaces $M$ of Type $\left(\mathrm{A}\right)$ in complex two plane Grassmannians $G_2\left({ℂ}^{m+2}\right)$ with a commuting condition between the shape operator $A$ and the structure tensors $\phi$ and ${\phi }_1$ for $M$ in $G_2\left({ℂ}^{m+2}\right)$. Motivated by this geometrical notion, in this paper we consider a new commuting condition in relation to the shape operator $A$ and a new operator $\phi {\phi }_1$ induced by two structure tensors $\phi$ and ${\phi }_1$. That is, this commuting shape operator is given by $\phi {\phi }_{1}A=A\phi {\phi }_1$. Using this condition, we prove that...

A hypercomplex manifold is a manifold equipped with three complex structures I, J, K satisfying the quaternionic relations. Let M be a 4-dimensional compact smooth manifold equipped with a hypercomplex structure, and E be a vector bundle on M. We show that the moduli space of anti-self-dual connections on E is also hypercomplex, and admits a strong HKT metric. We also study manifolds with (4,4)-supersymmetry, that is, Riemannian manifolds equipped with a pair of strong HKT-structures that have opposite...

Nous montrons qu’une variété CR strictement pseudoconvexe, de dimension 3, analytique réelle, est le bord à l’infini d’une unique métrique d’Einstein autoduale, définie dans un petit voisinage. La preuve s’appuie sur une construction nouvelle d’espaces de twisteurs à l’aide de courbes rationnelles singulières.

TheHermitian symmetric spaceM = EIII appears in the classification of complete simply connected Riemannian manifolds carrying a parallel even Clifford structure [19]. This means the existence of a real oriented Euclidean vector bundle E over it together with an algebra bundle morphism φ : Cl0(E) → End(TM) mapping Ʌ2E into skew-symmetric endomorphisms, and the existence of a metric connection on E compatible with φ. We give an explicit description of such a vector bundle E as a sub-bundle of End(TM)....

Sia $G$ un grupo di Lie compatto e semplice. Sia ${\mathcal{O}}_{\text{min}}$ la più piccola orbita nilpotente non-banale nell'algebra di Lie complessa $g^{\mathbb{C}}$. Si presenta una costruzione diretta di teoria di Lie delle metriche iperKahler su ${\mathcal{O}}_{\text{min}}$ con potenziale Kahleriano $G$-invariante e compatibili con la forma simplettica complessa di Kostant-Kirillov-Souriau. In particolare si ottengono le metriche iperKahler dei fibrati associati sugli spazi di Wolf (spazi simmetrici quaternionali a curvatura scalare positiva).

We study the intrinsic torsion of almost quaternion-Hermitian manifolds via the exterior algebra. In particular, we show how it is determined by particular three-forms formed from simple combinations of the exterior derivatives of the local Kähler forms. This gives a practical method to compute the intrinsic torsion and is applied in a number of examples. In addition we find simple characterisations of HKT and QKT geometries entirely in the exterior algebra and compute how the intrinsic torsion...