Quaternionic-Kähler manifolds and conforrmal geometry.
This Note will be followed by a Note II in these Rendiconti and successively by a wider and more detailed memoir to appear next. Here six quaternionic-like structures on a manifold (almost quaternionic, hypercomplex, unimodular quaternionic, unimodular hypercomplex, Hermitian quaternionic, Hermitian hypercomplex) are defined and interrelations between them are studied in the framework of general theory of G-structures. Special connections are associated to these structures. 1-integrability and...
We consider different types of quaternionic-like structures. The interrelations between automorphism groups of the subordinated structures and of some admissible connections are studied. A characterization of automorphisms of a quaternionic structure as some kind of projective transformations is given. General results on harmonicity of an automorphism of some -structure are obtained and applied to the case of an almost Hermitian quaternionic structure. Different noteworthy transformations groups...
On donne une construction de métriques riemanniennes où toutes les géodésiques issues d’un point sont fermées et de même longueur sur certaines variétés non difféomorphes aux sphères et projectifs usuels, et en particulier sur certaines sphères exotiquesOn étudie ensuite la topologie de ces variétés ; on précise le classique théorème de Bott dans le cas non simplement connexe ; on étend ses conclusions (affaiblies) sous une hypothèse plus faible sur les géodésiques.