Transgression on hyper-Kähler manifolds and generalized higher torsion forms (Q877147)

A hyper-Kähler manifold is a manifold admitting three anti-commuting structures \(I\), \(J\), \(K\) and a Riemannian metric which is Kähler with respect to \(I\), \(J\), \(K\). The paper under review begins with generalization of the \(dd^C\)-lemma for compact Kähler manifolds to the compact hyper-Kähler manifolds: If \(d^I\), \(d^J\), \(d^K\) are the \(d^C\)-operators for \(I\), \(J\), \(K\) then any exact and \(d^I\)-closed form \(\omega\) of degree \(k\geq 4\) is actually \(dd^Id^Jd^K\)-exact, \(\omega= dd^I d^Jd^K\tau\). Then the authors apply the result to derive a global construction of fourth-order transgression of the Chern character form of hyperholomorphic bundles over compact hyper-Kähler manifold. They also propose a local construction of the fourth-order transgression of the Chern character for families of hyperholomorphic bundles. There is also an explicit expression of the arising hypertorsion differential form.