Quaternionic K\"ahler Reductions of Wolf Spaces

Introducing a quaternionic structure on Euclidean space, the fundaments for quaternionic and symplectic Clifford analysis are studied in detail from the viewpoint of invariance for the symplectic group action.

In this paper we examine various properties/constructions which are known for reductive groups and we do some experiments to see to what extent they generalize to symmetric spaces.

We construct the hyperkahler cones corresponding to the Quaternion-Kahler orthogonal Wolf spaces SO(n+4)/(SO(n)xSO(4)) and their non-compact versions, which appear in hypermultiplet couplings to N=2 supergravity. The geometry is completely encoded by a single function, the hyperkahler potential, which we compute from an SU(2) hyperkahler quotient of flat space. We derive the Killing vectors and moment maps for the SO(n+4) isometry group on the hyperkahler cone. For the non-co...

We provide a new, self-contained proof of the classification of homogeneous 3-Sasakian manifolds, which was originally obtained by Boyer, Galicki and Mann. In doing so, we construct an explicit one-to-one correspondence between simply connected homogeneous 3-Sasakian manifolds and simple complex Lie algebras via the theory of root systems. We also discuss why the real projective spaces are the only non-simply connected homogeneous 3-Sasakian manifolds and derive the famous cl...

Let $(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{k})$ be a complex quaternionic symmetric pair with $\mathfrak{k}$ having an ideal $\mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb{C})$, $\mathfrak{k}=\mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb{C})+\mathfrak{m}_c$. Consider the representation $S^m(\mathbb{C}^2)=\mathbb{C}^{m+1}$ of $\mathfrak{k}$ via the projection onto the ideal $\mathfrak{k}\to \mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb{C})$. We study the finite dimensional irreducible representations $V(\lambda)$ of $\mathfrak{g}$ which contain $S^m(\...

Possible holonomy algebras of pseudo-quaternionic-K\"ahlerian manifolds of signature $(4,4)$ are classified. Using this, a new proof of the classification of simply connected pseudo-quaternionic-K\"ahlerian symmetric spaces of signature $(4,4)$ is obtained.

We initiate the study of the generalized quaternionic manifolds by classifying the generalized quaternionic vector spaces, and by giving two classes of nonclassical examples of such manifolds. Thus, we show that any complex symplectic manifold is endowed with a natural (nonclassical) generalized quaternionic structure, and the same applies to the heaven space of any three-dimensional Einstein-Weyl space. In particular, on the product $Z$ of any complex symplectic manifold $M$...

We present a uniform framework generalising and extending the classical theories of projective differential geometry, c-projective geometry, and almost quaternionic geometry. Such geometries, which we call \emph{projective parabolic geometries}, are abelian parabolic geometries whose flat model is an R-space $G\cdot\mathfrak{p}$ in the infinitesimal isotropy representation $\mathbb{W}$ of a larger self-dual symmetric R-space $H\cdot\mathfrak{q}$. We also give a classification...

This is a complete classification of the complex forms of quaternionic symmetric spaces

We show that the classification of the symmetric spaces can be achieved by K-theoretical methods. We focus on Hermitian symmetric spaces of non-compact type, and define K-theory for JB*-triples along the lines of C*-theory. K-groups have to be provided with further invariants in order to classify. Among these are the cycles obtained from so called grids, intimately connected to the root systems of an underlying Lie-algebra and thus reminiscent of the classical classification ...