A generalization of the momentum mapping construction for quaternionic Kähler manifolds
A generalization of the momentum mapping construction for quaternionic Kähler manifolds
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1987
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K. Galicki
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K. Galicki
We present a method of reduction of any quaternionic Kähler manifold with isometries to another quaternionic Kähler manifold in which the isometries are divided out. Our method is a generalization of the Marsden-Weinstein construction for symplectic manifolds to the non-symplectic geometry of the quaternionic Kähler case. We compare our results with the known construction for Kähler and hyperKähler manifolds. We also discuss the relevance of our results to the physics of supersymmetric non-linear σ-models and some applications of the method. In particular, we show that the Wolf spaces can be obtained as theU(1) andSU(2) quotients of quaternionic projective spaceHP(n). We also construct an interesting example of compact riemannianV-manifolds(orbifolds) whose metrics are quaternionic Kähler and not symmetric.