TITLE: The de Rham complex of the octonionic projective spaces
QUESTION [25 upvotes]: The complex projective space $\mathbb{CP}^n$ is a complex manifold, and hence its de Rham complex carries a representation of the complex numbers in the form of its complex structure. The quaternionic projective space $\mathbb{HP}^n$ is a quaternionic Kähler manifold, and so its de Rham complex carries a local representation of the quaternions. Continuing the analogy, do the octonionic line $\mathbb{OP}^1$ and the octonionic projective plane $\mathbb{OP}^2$ carry some representation of the octonions, or at least have some extra structure reflecting their octonionic construction?

REPLY [4 votes]: A description of the octonionic projective plane in terms of the octonionic algebra is described by John Baez in his notes on Octonionic projective geometry:
The Jordan algebra of 3×3 Hermitian octonionic matrices, with multiplication rule $x\circ y=(xy+yx)/2$, generates the octonionic projective plane $\mathbb{OP}^2$ if we restrict the matrices $p$ to unit trace and idempotent ($p^2=p$). Lines through the origin containing $(x,y)$ with $x\neq 0$ equal $\{(\alpha(y^{-1}x),\alpha):\alpha\in\mathbb{O}\}$.
The differential forms of the de Rham complex are constructed in terms of "octonionic Pauli matrices" by Piccinni in On the cohomology of some exceptional symmetric spaces (section 4).