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1 Special quaternionic manifolds from variations of Hodge structures A. Baarsma, J. Stienstra, T. van der Aalst, S. Vandoren (to appear)

2 A conversation Physicist: Quaternion-Kähler manifolds from T-dualizing vector multiplets into hypermultiplets in N=2 D=4 supergravity Mathematician: Excuse me? Physicist: Compactify type IIA strings on a CY 3 manifold, look at complex structure deformations, and add RR-fields + dilaton Mathematician: What are you talking about?

3 Two years later Mathematician: Aha! Start with variations of Hodge structures of CY type, construct bundle of Weil intermediate Jacobians, and add punctured discs. Is that it? Physicist: What are you talking about?

4 Aim I will present a construction of quaternion- Kähler manifolds, discovered by physicists (Cecotti, Ferrara and Girardello, 91 the c-map ), but now translated into purely mathematical terms. [Related work by: M. Roček, C. Vafa, S.V. 06; N. Hitchin, 09; V. Cortés, 98; V. Cortés, T Mohaupt, H. Xu, arxiv: (see Sunday-talk!)]

5 Quaternion-Kähler manfiolds QK manifolds (M,g,J) of dimension 4n have holonomy Sp(n)xSp(1). They are Einstein.[Supersymmetry : R<0!!] Quaternionic structure J i J j ij 1 ijk J k Not integrable: Sp(1) connection p r J r p r J r r R(p) gj

6 Content Variations of CY-Hodge structures Quaternionic vector bundles Hyperbolic spaces & Heisenberg groups Quaternion-Kähler manifolds Weil intermediate Jacobians The full picture

7 CY-Hodge structures Let X be a compact Kähler manifold; (complexified) cohomology groups H k (X,C) Hodge decomposition H k (X, ) p q k H p,q (X) k=3 (CY 3, dim H 3,0 =1): H H 3,0 H 2,1 H 1,2 H 0,3 H

8 CY-Hodge structures Weil operator (complex structure on H 3 (X,R)) C H p,q i p q H p,q H q, p Non-degenerate alternating form Q(H p,q, H p ',q ' ) 0 Q(a,Ca) 0 a H \ {0} Q(a,b) X a b if (p,q) (q', p')

9 CY-Hodge structures Hodge filtration F: F q p q H p,3 q H p,q F p F q Instead of Hodge decomposition, we work with the filtration 0 F 4 F 3 F 2 F 1 F 0 H 3 (X, )

10 Variation of Hodge structures Family of compact Kähler manifolds (think of moduli space M of complex structure deformations of CY 3 ) Family of Hodge structures. Hodge bundle (Bryant & Griffiths, 83): H M Variation of Hodge structure on base manifold M: (M, H, GM,F,Q)

11 Variation of Hodge structures Griffiths transversality: GM (F p ) 1 (F p 1 ) Essentially, this means that : F 3 TM F 2 / F 3 H 2,1 X (X) [ X ] is a homomorphism. When M is such that this is an isomorphism, M is called (projective) special Kähler. [Cortés, Freed]

12 Special Kähler manifolds Hermitian form on H R (indefinite): h 2iQ(, ) Restriction to F 3 =H 3,0 is positive definite and defines Kähler form and (Weil- Petersson) metric: log(h(, )) K WP log(h(, ))

13 Weil versus Griffiths Griffiths: is positive definite on H 3,0 +H 1,2 and negative definite on H 0,3 +H 2,1. [ Q(a,Ca)>0 ] Weil metric: h 2iQ(, ) h W (.,. ) Q( C.,. ) iq(.,. ) is positve definite on entire H H 3,0 H 2,1 H 1,2 H 0,3 C : i i i i

14 Quaternionic Vector Bundles Let M be a special Kähler manifold. We can construct a vector bundle over M: For each fibre above to the quaternionic algebra: Q Q Q Q M F 3 t M,Q t is isomorphic ( f, ) (g, ) a ( fg h(, ), f g )

15 Quaternionic Vector Bundles Define now the vector bundle W F 3* F 2 F 2 Hom(F 3,F 2 ) F 2 Hom(H 3,0, H 3,0 H 2,1 ) H 1,2 H 0,3.1 TM H 1,2 H 0,3 Right-action of the quaternions on W (fibre-wise): W Q W

16 Quaternionic Vector Bundles Define metric g W :W W g (w,w ) Re(h(, )h W (, ) h W (, )) W w h(., ) F 3* 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 Metric compatible with quaternionic action: g W (w 1. q,w 2. q) q 2 g W (w 1,w 2 )

17 Further plan Consider the fibres Hodge bundle M. H H,t ; t M of the Statement 1: We can enlarge each fibre to become complex hyperbolic space. Statement 2: Bundle of hyperbolic spaces over M is a quaternion-kähler manifold.

18 Complex hyperbolic space Representation in terms of Siegel domain: S {(z,w) n Im(w) 1 2 z 2 } Siegel domain associated to a Hodge structure: S W {(a, ) H Im( ) 1 2 hw (a,a)}

19 Complex hyperbolic space Bergmann metric h B on S W : Kähler, with Kähler potential K B (a, ) log(2im( ) h W (a,a)) Siegel domain S W is diffeomorphic to the extended Heisenberg group EHeis H Group multiplication (a,, ) (a', ', ') (a a', ' Q(a,a'), ')

20 Bundle of hyperbolic spaces Let (M, H, GM,F,Q) be a special Kähler manifold, Hodge bundle Define the product manifold H M M QK H Projection map Fibres ˆ : M QK M EHeis t ˆ 1 (t) H,t

21 Metric We can construct a metric on M QK : Tangent bundle g QK ˆ * g WP g B TM QK ˆ * TM ker(d ˆ )

22 Quaternionic vector bundles Reminder: vector bundles over M: Q M F 3 W F 3* F 2 F 2 W Q W Pull back to vector bundles over M QK : ˆQ ˆ * Q Wˆ ˆ * W One can construct an isomorphism : ˆ W TM QK

23 Quaternionic Geometry Pull back the metric g W on Theorem: W to Wˆ g QK ( w 1, w 2 ) g ˆ W (w 1,w 2 ) w 1,2 ˆ Wˆt ; W t Also after the pull back, ˆQ acts linearly on W ˆ ; TM, so ˆQ QK provides subbundle of End(TM QK ), hence a quaternionic structure. One can show that M QK is QK!

24 Summary of further results We can construct bundle of intermediate Jacobians Jac H / H M Combined with Weil complex structure and Weil metric, this becomes an abelian variety (torus).

25 Summary of further results One can take quotient of Siegel domain EHeis( ) H Heis( ) Bundle of punctured disks over Jac over M For fixed, one gets circle bundle over the Weil intermediate Jacobian: contact geometry, Sasaki structure

26 The full picture (A. Baarsma)

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