(1) Department Matemática Aplicada, E.T.S.I. Industriales y Minas, Universidad de Vigo, 36280 Vigo, Spain;(2) Department Geometría y Topología, Fac. Matemáticas, Universidad de Santiago, 15706 Santiago, Spain
Abstract:
We study connected Lie groups whose Lie algebra is obtained as the tensor product of a real associative algebra and the algebra
of quaternions. It is proved that they carry a natural integrable
-structure. We endow such quaternionic Lie groups with a left-invariant Hermitian metric and study the identity connected component of their isometry groups. The determination of such identity connected component is illustrated with a family of examples.