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Complex forms of quaternionic symmetric spaces. (English) Zbl 1079.53067

Kowalski, Oldřich (ed.) et al., Complex, contact and symmetric manifolds. In honor of L. Vanhecke. Selected lectures from the international conference “Curvature in Geometry” held in Lecce, Italy, June 11–14, 2003. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser (ISBN 0-8176-3850-4/hbk). Progress in Mathematics 234, 265-277 (2005).
In the present paper the author gives a complete classification of complex forms \(L/V\) of quaternionic symmetric spaces \(G/K\). The case where \(G\) is a classical group and \(\text{rank} (L)= \text{rank} (G)\) follows from the matrix considerations. The computer program LiE is used for the exceptional groups. Some examples of its applications show that the complexifications \(L_ {\mathbb C}\) and \(K_ {\mathbb C}\) are conjugate in \(G_ {\mathbb C}\). They fill the cases for \(G\) exceptional and \(\text{rank} (L)= \text{rank} (G)\), and the remaining exceptional equal rank cases are worked out in the subsequent section. Finally, the cases when \(\text{rank} (L)< \text{rank} (G)\) are considered.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1062.53001].

MSC:

53C26 Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, “special” geometry
53C35 Differential geometry of symmetric spaces
53-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to differential geometry

Software:

LiE