Classification of quaternionic skew-Hermitian symmetric spaces
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Ioannis Chrysikos1, Jan Gregorovič2,3
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
We provide a complete classification of quaternionic skew-Hermitian symmetric spaces, namely symmetric spaces that admit a torsion-free -structure for arbitrary . Moreover, we prove that any homogeneous quaternionic skew-Hermitian manifold is necessarily a symmetric space.
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