Some remarks on Calabi-Yau and hyper-Kähler foliations (Q2349427)

The authors investigate the geometry of Riemannian foliations whose transverse Levi-Civita connection \(\nabla\) satisfies either \(\mathrm{Hol}(\nabla) \subseteq \mathrm{SU}(n)\) (the analogous of Calabi-Yau foliations) or \(\mathrm{Hol}(\nabla) \subseteq\mathrm{Sp}(n)\) (the analogous of hyper-Kähler foliations). First, the authors obtain a Weitzenböck formula for Kähler foliations which allow them to establish some analogies between foliated Calabi-Yau manifolds and classical Calabi-Yau manifolds. Next, they prove that every simply-connected compact manifold carrying a Kähler foliation and a compatible transverse hyper-complex structure actually admits a hyper-Kähler foliation. A key ingredient in the proof of this last result is the existence and uniqueness of a special connection having skew-symmetric transverse torsion on every manifold carrying a Hermitian foliation. Finally, they prove that a transversally flat compact Sasakian manifold is always a compact quotient of the Heisenberg group. Several interesting examples and discussions on the subject are also presented.