A theory of quaternionic algebra, with applications to hypercomplex geometry

Details A theory of quaternionic algebra, with applications to hypercomplex geometry A theory of quaternionic algebra, with applications to hypercomplex geometry

2000-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/math/0010079v1

Proc. 2nd Meeting on Quaternionic Structures in Mathematics and Physics, Rome, 1999

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Differential Geometry

66 pages, LaTeX, uses packages amstex and amssymb

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In this paper we introduce a new algebraic device, which enables us to treat the quaternions as though they were a commutative field. This is of interest both for its own sake, and because it can be applied to develop an "algebraic geometry" of noncompact hypercomplex manifolds. The basic building blocks of the theory are AH modules, which should be thought of "vector spaces" over the quaternions. An AH-module is a left module over the quaternions H, together with a real vector subspace. There are natural concepts of linear map and tensor product of AH-modules, which have many of the properties of linear maps and tensor products of vector spaces. However, the definition of tensor product of AH-modules is strange and has some unexpected properties. Let M be a hypercomplex manifold. Then there is a natural class of H-valued "q-holomorphic functions" on M, satisfying a quaternionic analogue of the Cauchy-Riemann equations, which are analogues of holomorphic functions on complex manifolds. The vector space of q-holomorphic functions A on M is an AH-module. Now some pairs of q-holomorphic functions can be multiplied together to get another q-holomorphic function, but other pairs cannot. So A has a kind of partial algebra structure. It turns out that this structure can be very neatly described using the quaternionic tensor product and AH-morphisms, and that A has the structure of an "H-algebra", a quaternionic analogue of commutative algebra.

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