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Twistorial maps between quaternionic manifolds

Differential Geometry 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We introduce a natural notion of quaternionic map between almost quaternionic manifolds and we prove the following, for maps of rank at least one: 1) A map between quaternionic manifolds endowed with the integrable almost twistorial structures is twistorial if and only if it is quaternionic. 2) A map between quaternionic manifolds endowed with the nonintegrable almost twistorial structures is twistorial if and only if it is quaternionic and totally-geodesic. As an application, we describe the quaternionic maps between open sets of quaternionic projective spaces.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.4587,
  title  = {Twistorial maps between quaternionic manifolds},
  author = {S. Ianus and S. Marchiafava and L. Ornea and R. Pantilie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4587},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Minor improvements and two references added for Definition 2.7 and Proposition 2.8

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