Examples of transversally complex submanifolds of the associative Grassmann manifold

Abstract

We consider the Grassmann manifold of associative subspaces in the space of imaginary octonions, which we call the associative Grassmann manifold. It is known that the associative Grassmann manifold is an eight-dimensional compact symmetric quaternionic Kahler manifold. We construct interesting examples of four-dimensional complex submanifolds of the associative Grassmann manifold.