Canonical bundles of complex nilmanifolds, with applications to hypercomplex geometry (Q843049)

The authors give a new proof for the following result: the canonical bundle of any complex nilmanifold is holomorphically trivial. It also proved that the holonomy Hol(\(\nabla\)) of a hypercomplex manifold always lies in SL(\(n,\mathbb H\)) and as a consequence the Obata connection on any hypercomplex nilmanifold is Ricci flat. HKT-structures are also investigated. For abelian hypercomplex nilmanifolds, any left invariant quaternionic Hermitian metric is automatically HKT. Using the triviality of the canonical bundle and the hypercomplex version of Hodge theory, it is proved that any hypercomplex nilmanifold admitting a left invariant HKT-metric is in fact abelian. In particular, any HKT-metric on any hypercomplex nilmanifold is balanced with respect to all underlying complex structures.