“…In the case of M 1 , M 1 is precisely the exceptional orbit λ = 0 (diffeomorphic to SO(3)), the "bolt" in the language of [1]. Choosing γ = γ, the Ricci-flat metric, one has a connected, embedded, minimal Lagrangian submanifold of a Calabi-Yau manifold, which must therefore be special Lagrangian, by a straightforward extension [7] of a theorem of Harvey and Lawson [6] concerning such submanifolds in C n . In this picture, the special Lagrangian bolt is viewed as the space of (twisted degree 1) harmonic maps RP 2 → RP 2 sitting inside the space of (degree 1) harmonic maps S 2 → S 2 .…”