Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1893842 | Journal of Geometry and Physics | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The non-Abelian Kaluza–Klein reduction of conformally flat spaces is considered for arbitrary dimensions and signatures. The corresponding equations are particularly elegant when the internal space supports a global Killing parallelization. Assuming this imposes the generalized ‘spacetime’ to be maximally symmetric with holonomy in the unitary quaternionic group Sp(d/4)Sp(d/4). Recalling an analogous result for the complex case, we conclude that all special manifolds with constant properly ‘holonomy-related’ sectional curvature, are in natural correspondence with conformally flat, possibly non-Abelian, Kaluza–Klein spaces.
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Authors
Paolo Maraner, Jiannis K. Pachos,