Deformations of generalized calibrations and compact non-Kähler manifolds with vanishing first Chern class (Q2565979)

The authors investigate the deformation theory of a class of generalized calibrations in Riemannian manifolds for which the tangent bundle has reduced structure group \(\text{U}(n)\), \(\text{SU}(n)\), \(\text{G}_2\) or \(\text{Spin}(7)\). The special feature of all these cases is that the calibration form is parallel with respect to the metric connection. In all these cases the authors prove that if there is a moduli space, then it is finite-dimensional. In the second part of the paper the Hermitian manifolds with vanishing first Chern class are studied. One of the main results is the following Theorem: On a connected sum of \(k\geq 2\) copies of \(S^3\times S^3\) there exists a Hermitian structure for which the holonomy of the Bismut connection is contained in \(\text{SU}(3)\). Such a Hermitian structure is not strong. Not strong -- means that the Kähler form of the structure is not \(\partial\overline\partial\) -- closed.