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I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case (negative since you exclude hyperkahler case) but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrunnLeBrun and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.

I looked around for what's known in negative case and in this paper LeBrun constructs an infinite dimensional family of negative quaternion Kahler metrics on $\mathbb R^{4n}$. I suspect most of these have no symmetries. But apparently, only locally symmetric compact examples are known though.

I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case (negative since you exclude hyperkahler case) but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrunn and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.

I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case (negative since you exclude hyperkahler case) but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrun and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.

I looked around for what's known in negative case and in this paper LeBrun constructs an infinite dimensional family of negative quaternion Kahler metrics on $\mathbb R^{4n}$. I suspect most of these have no symmetries. But apparently, only locally symmetric compact examples are known though.

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Vitali Kapovitch
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I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case (negative since you exclude hyperkahler case) but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrunn and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.

I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrunn and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.

I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case (negative since you exclude hyperkahler case) but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrunn and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.

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Vitali Kapovitch
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I'm not familiar with the nonpositive case but there are no such examples known for postive quaternion Kahler manifolds (i.e. those with positive scalar curvature). They are all conjectured to be symmetric spaces (conjecture of LeBrunn and Salamon) and this conjecture has been verified in dimensions 4 (Hitchin) and and 8 (Poon and Salamon). Certainly, only symmetric examples are known such as $\mathbb HP^n, Gr_2(\mathbb C^{n+2})$, $\widetilde {Gr_4}(\mathbb R^{n+4})$ (the Grassmanian of oriented real $4$-planes) and a few exceptional spaces such as $G_2/SO(4)$.