$\operatorname{Sp}(1)$-symmetric hyperk\"ahler quantisation

Abstract

We provide a new general scheme for the geometric quantisation of $\operatorname{Sp}(1)$-symmetric hyper-K\"ahler manifolds, considering Hilbert spaces of holomorphic sections with respect to the complex structures in the hyper-K\"ahler 2-sphere. Under properness of an associated moment map, or other finiteness assumptions, we construct unitary quantum (super) representations of central extensions of certain subgroups of Riemannian isometries preserving the 2-sphere, and we study their decomposition in irreducible components. We apply this quantisation scheme to hyper-K\"ahler vector spaces, the Taub--NUT metric on $\mathbb{R}^4$, moduli spaces of framed $\operatorname{SU}(r)$-instantons on $\mathbb{R}^4$, and partly to the Atiyah--Hitchin manifold of magnetic monopoles in $\mathbb{R}^3$