Hypercomplex structures on four-dimensional Lie groups

The purpose of this paper is to classify invariant hypercomplex structures on a -dimensional real Lie group . It is shown that the -dimensional simply connected Lie groups which admit invariant hypercomplex structures are the additive group of the quaternions, the multiplicative group of nonzero quaternions, the solvable Lie groups acting simply transitively on the real and complex hyperbolic spaces, and , respectively, and the semidirect product . We show that the spaces and possess an of (inequivalent) invariant hypercomplex structures while the remaining groups have only one, up to equivalence. Finally, the corresponding hyperhermitian -manifolds are determined.