Abstract:
We describe a family of calibrations arising naturally on a hyperkaehler manifold M. These calibrationscalibrate the holomorphic Lagrangian, holomorphic isotropic and holomorphic coisotropic subvarieties. When M is an HKT (hyperkahler with torsion) manifold with holonomy SL(n,H), we construct another family of calibrations, which calibrate holomorphic Lagrangian and holomorphic coisotropic subvarieties. They are (generally speaking) not parallel with respect to any torsionless connection on M. We note also that there are examples of complex isotropic submanifolds in SL(n,H) manifolds with HKT structure, which can not be calibrated by any form, unlike the Kaehler case.