The holonomy of the Obata connection on Joyce hypercomplex manifolds

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Main Authors: Brienza, Beatrice, Fowdar, Udhav, Gentili, Giovanni, Vezzoni, Luigi
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author Brienza, Beatrice
Fowdar, Udhav
Gentili, Giovanni
Vezzoni, Luigi
author_facet Brienza, Beatrice
Fowdar, Udhav
Gentili, Giovanni
Vezzoni, Luigi
contents We study the holonomy of the Obata connection on Joyce hypercomplex manifolds. For all such group manifolds except $\mathrm{SU}(2n+1)$, we show that the holonomy group is strictly contained in the quaternionic general linear group. The case of $\mathrm{SU}(2n+1)$ is more subtle: for every $n>1$, we show that there exist infinitely many Joyce hypercomplex structures with Obata holonomy strictly contained in $\mathrm{GL}(n(n+1),\mathbb{H})$. On the other hand, Soldatenkov showed that $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ has Obata holonomy equal to $\mathrm{GL}(2,\mathbb{H})$ \cite{Sol}, and we present here a new example on $\mathrm{SU}(5)$ with holonomy equal to $\mathrm{GL}(6,\mathbb{H})$. Finally, we investigate Joyce hypercomplex manifolds whose restricted holonomy lie in $\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb{H})$, yielding new compact examples of twisted Calabi-Yau manifolds.
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spellingShingle The holonomy of the Obata connection on Joyce hypercomplex manifolds
Brienza, Beatrice
Fowdar, Udhav
Gentili, Giovanni
Vezzoni, Luigi
Differential Geometry
22C05, 53C05, 53C26, 53C29
We study the holonomy of the Obata connection on Joyce hypercomplex manifolds. For all such group manifolds except $\mathrm{SU}(2n+1)$, we show that the holonomy group is strictly contained in the quaternionic general linear group. The case of $\mathrm{SU}(2n+1)$ is more subtle: for every $n>1$, we show that there exist infinitely many Joyce hypercomplex structures with Obata holonomy strictly contained in $\mathrm{GL}(n(n+1),\mathbb{H})$. On the other hand, Soldatenkov showed that $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ has Obata holonomy equal to $\mathrm{GL}(2,\mathbb{H})$ \cite{Sol}, and we present here a new example on $\mathrm{SU}(5)$ with holonomy equal to $\mathrm{GL}(6,\mathbb{H})$. Finally, we investigate Joyce hypercomplex manifolds whose restricted holonomy lie in $\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb{H})$, yielding new compact examples of twisted Calabi-Yau manifolds.
title The holonomy of the Obata connection on Joyce hypercomplex manifolds
topic Differential Geometry
22C05, 53C05, 53C26, 53C29
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07722