In this paper we construct a family of almost para-hyperhermitian structures on the tangent bundle of an almost parahermitian manifold and study its integrability. Also, the necessary and sufficient conditions are provided for these structures to become para-hyper-Kähler.Key words: para-hyperhermitian structure, tangent bundle, paracomplex space form.
PRELIMINARIESAn almost product structure on a smooth manifold M is a tensor field P of type (1,1) on M, P = ±Id, such thatwhere Id is the identity tensor field of type (1,1) on M.An almost para-hermitian structure on a differentiable manifold M is a pair (P, g), where P is an almost product structure on M and g is a semi-Riemannian metric on M satisfyingIn this case, (M, P, g) is said to be an almost para-hermitian manifold. It is easy to see that the dimension of M is even. Moreover, if ∇P = 0, then (M, P, g) is said to be a para-Kähler manifold.An almost complex structure on a smooth manifold M is a tensor field J of type (1,1) on M such thatAn almost para-hypercomplex structure on a smooth manifold M is a triple H = (J α ) α=1,3 , where J 1 is an almost complex structure on M and J 2 , J 3 are almost product structures on M, satisfyingIn this case (M, H) is said to be an almost para-hypercomplex manifold.A semi-Riemannian metric g on (M, H) is said to be compatible or adapted to the almost parahypercomplex structure H = (J α ) α=1,3 if it satisfies Remark 2.3. If (M, P, g) is an almost para-hermitian manifold, then we can define three tensor fields J 1 , J 2 , J 3 on T M by the equalities:It is easy to see that J 1 is an almost complex structure and J 2 , J 3 are almost product structures. We also have the following result (see [15]).