Spinor structures on spheres and projective spaces

DOI10.1063/1.527021zbMath0599.53030OpenAlexW2039132119MaRDI QIDQ3733721

Ludwik Dąbrowski, Andrzej Trautman

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527021

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous Riemannian manifoldprojective spacesspinor structuresspinor connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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