Spinors and Calibrations

Progress in mathematics is based on a thorough understanding of the mathematical objects under consideration, and yet many textbooks and monographs proceed to discuss general statements and assume that the reader can and will provide the mathematical infrastructure of examples and counterexamples. This book makes a deliberate effort to correct this it is a collection of examples. The following table of contents describes its breadth and reveals the underlying motivation--differential geometry--in its many Riemannian, symplectic, K*adahler, hyperK*adahler, as well as complex and quaternionic.