Quaternionic projective invariance of the $k$-Cauchy-Fueter complex and applications I

Abstract

The $k$-Cauchy-Fueter complex in quaternionic analysis is the counterpart of the Dolbeault complex in complex analysis. In this paper, we find the explicit transformation formula of these complexes under ${\rm SL}(n+1,\mathbb{H})$, which acts on $\mathbb{H}^{ n}$ as quaternionic fractional linear transformations. These transformation formulae have several interesting applications to $k$-regular functions, the quaternionic counterpart of holomorphic functions, and geometry of domains. They allow us to construct the $k$-Cauchy-Fueter complex over locally projective flat manifolds explicitly and introduce various notions of pluripotential theory on this kind of manifolds. We also introduce a quaternionic projectively invariant operator from the quaternionic Monge-Amp\`{e}re operator, which can be used to find projectively invariant defining density of a domain, generalizing Fefferman's construction in complex analysis.