Mini-Workshop: Quaternion Kähler Structures in Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry

  • Anna Fino

    Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  • Uwe Semmelmann

    Universität Stuttgart, Germany
  • Jaroslaw A. Wisniewski

    Warsaw University, Poland
  • Frederik Witt

    Universität Münster, Germany

Abstract

Metrics of special holonomy are of central interest in both Riemannian and complex algebraic geometry. We focus on an important classification problem of a particular type of special holonomy manifolds, namely compact quaternion-Kähler with positive scalar curvature (Salamon-LeBrun conjecture). In the language of algebraic geometry this corresponds to the classification of Fano contact manifolds. By bringing together leading experts in both fields this workshop pursued a two-fold goal: First, to revise old and to develop new strategies for proving the most central conjecture in the field of quaternionic Kähler geometry. Second, to introduce young researchers at PhD/PostDoc level to this interdisciplinary circle of ideas.

Cite this article

Anna Fino, Uwe Semmelmann, Jaroslaw A. Wisniewski, Frederik Witt, Mini-Workshop: Quaternion Kähler Structures in Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry. Oberwolfach Rep. 10 (2013), no. 4, pp. 3115–3145

DOI 10.4171/OWR/2013/53