Principal bundles with holomorphic connections over a Kaehler Calabi-Yau manifold

Abstract

We prove that any holomorphic vector bundle admitting a holomorphic connection, over a compact Kähler Calabi-Yau manifold, also admits a flat holomorphic connection. This addresses a particular case of a question asked by Atiyah and generalizes a result previously obtained in \cite{BD} for simply connected compact Kähler Calabi-Yau manifolds. We give some applications of it in the framework of Cartan geometries and foliated Cartan geometries on Kähler Calabi-Yau manifolds.