@article {Boyer:March 2002:0232-704X:85, author = "Boyer C.P.", author = "Galicki K.", author = "Piccinni P.", title = "3-Sasakian Geometry, Nilpotent Orbits, and Exceptional Quotients", journal = "Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry", volume = "21", year = "March 2002", abstract = "
Using 3-Sasakian reduction techniques we obtain infinite families of new 3-Sasakian manifolds M (p_1, p_2, p_3) and M (p_1, p_2, p_3, p_4) in dimension 11 and 15 respectively. The metric cone on (p_1, p_2, p_3) is a generalization of the Kronheimer hyperkähler metric on the regular maximal nilpotent orbit of sl (3, C) whereas the cone on M (p_1, p_2, p_3, p_4) generalizes the hyperkähler metric on the 16-dimensional orbit of so(6, C). These are the first examples of 3-Sasakian metrics which are neither homogeneous nor toric. In addition we consider some further U(1)-reductions of M(p_1, p_2, p_3). These yield examples of nontoric 3-Sasakian orbifold metrics in dimensions 7. As a result we obtain explicit families O(
} of compact self-dual positive scalar curvature Einstein metrics with orbifold singularities and with only one Killing vector field.