Six-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with a real Killing spinor (Q917060)

A spinor field \(\psi\) on a Riemannian spin manifold \(M^ n\) is a Killing spinor if it is a solution of the differential equation \(\nabla_ X\psi +\lambda \cdot x\cdot \psi =0\) for all vector fields X, where \(\lambda\) is a complex number. A Riemannian manifold with a Killing spinor is an Einstein space with scalar curvature \(R=4n(n-1)\lambda^ 2.\) In case the scalar curvature is positive and \(\lambda\) is a real number, the geometric meaning of this equation depends on the dimension of the manifold. On odd-dimensional manifolds there is a relation between Einstein-Sasakian structures and Killing spinors as well as classification results in dimension \(n=5,7\) (Friedrich and Kath). On the other hand, an 8-dimensional compact manifold with a Killing spinor is isometric to the sphere \(S^ 8\) (Hijazi). The aim of the present paper is to study real Killing spinors on 6-dimensional manifolds. In particular the author proves that on a simply-connected 6-dimensional manifold there is a one-to-one correspondence between Killing spinors and nearly-Kähler (non-Kähler) structures. A similar relation does not hold in higher even dimensions - see a forthcoming paper of the author.