CALIBRATIONS IN HYPER-KÄHLER GEOMETRY

Abstract

We describe a family of calibrations arising naturally on a hyper-Kähler manifold M. These calibrations calibrate the holomorphic Lagrangian, holomorphic isotropic and holomorphic coisotropic subvarieties. When M is an HKT (hyper-Kähler with torsion) manifold with holonomy SL (n, ℍ), we construct another family of calibrations Φi, which calibrates holomorphic Lagrangian and holomorphic coisotropic subvarieties. The calibrations Φi are (generally speaking) not parallel with respect to any torsion-free connection on M.