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Which Fueter-regular functions are holomorphic?

Complex Variables 2025-06-11 v1

Abstract

We provide a classification of Fueter-regular quaternionic functions ff in terms of the degree of complex linearity of their real differentials dfdf. Quaternionic imaginary units define orthogonal almost-complex structures on the tangent bundle of the quaternionic space by left or right multiplication. Every map of two complex variables that is holomorphic with respect to one of these structures defines a Fueter-regular function. We classify the differential dfdf of a Fueter-regular function ff, roughly speaking, in terms of how many choices of complex structures make dfdf complex linear. It turns out that, generically, ff is not holomorphic with respect to any choice of almost-complex structures. In the special case when it is indeed holomorphic, generically there is a unique choice of almost-complex structures making it holomorphic. The case of holomorphy with respect to several choices of almost-complex structures is limited to conformal real affine transformations or constants.

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@article{arxiv.2411.00127,
  title  = {Which Fueter-regular functions are holomorphic?},
  author = {Alessandro Perotti and Caterina Stoppato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00127},
  year   = {2025}
}

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35 pages, to appear in the Journal of Geometric Analysis

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