Submaximally symmetric quaternion Hermitian structures

Abstract

We consider and resolve the gap problem for almost quaternion-Hermitian structures, i.e. we determine the maximal and submaximal symmetry dimensions, both for Lie algebras and Lie groups, in the class of almost quaternion-Hermitian manifolds. We classify all structures with such symmetry dimensions. Geometric properties of the submaximally symmetric spaces are studied, in particular, we identify locally conformally quaternion-Kähler structures as well as quaternion-Kähler with torsion.