Quaternionic contact manifolds, introduced by O.Biquard, are modeled on the conformal infinities of quaternionic Kahler metrics. This talk will focus on classification of quaternionic contact Einstein structures, their relation with the quaternionic contact Yamabe problem, and examples of such and related quaternionic Kahler manifolds.
Geometry-Topology Seminar
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 4:30pm
Dimiter Vassilev
University of New Mexico