Flat Hypercomplex Nilmanifolds are \(\mathbb H\)-Solvable

Abstract

Let \(\mathbb H\) be a quaternion algebra generated by \(I,J\) and \(K\). We say that a hypercomplex nilpotent Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) is \(\mathbb H\)-solvable if there exists a sequence of \(\mathbb H\)-invariant subalgebras containing \(\mathfrak g_{i+1}=[\mathfrak g_i,\mathfrak g_i]\),

such that \([\mathfrak g_i^{\mathbb H},\mathfrak g_i^{\mathbb H}]\subset\mathfrak g^{\mathbb H}_{i+1}\) and \(\mathfrak g_{i+1}^{\mathbb H}=\mathbb H[\mathfrak g_i^{\mathbb H},\mathfrak g_i^{\mathbb H}] \). Let \(N=\Gamma\setminus G\) be a hypercomplex nilmanifold with the flat Obata connection and \(\mathfrak g=\operatorname{Lie}(G)\). We prove that the Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) is \(\mathbb H\)-solvable.