A singularity theorem for twistor spinors

DOI10.5802/AIF.2289MaRDI QIDQ2372826zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Ginoux, Florin Belgun, Hans-Bert Rademacher

Publication date 1 August 2007

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409136, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIF_2007__57_4_1135_0, https://eudml.org/doc/10253

zbMATH Keywords

ale spacesorbifoldstwistor-spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

Abstract: We study spin structures on orbifolds. In particular, we show that if the singular set has codimension greater than 2, an orbifold is spin if and only if its smooth part is. On compact orbifolds, we show that any non-trivial twistor spinor admits at most one zero which is singular unless the orbifold is conformally equivalent to a round sphere. We show the sharpness of our results through examples.

Review text

This paper consists in a detailed study of spin structures on orbifolds. In particular, the authors prove that, given an oriented orbifold \(M\) and assuming that the set \(S\) of its singularities has codimension at least 4, then \(M\) is spin if and only if the manifold \(M\setminus S\) is spin. Furthermore, the spin structures on \(M\) are in \(1-1\) correspondence with the spin structures on \(M\setminus S\). Particular attention to compact spin orbifolds is given. In fact, the authors consider a compact Riemannian spin orbifold \(M\) admitting a non-trivial twistor spinor with zero at a point \(p_0\). Then, either this zero is unique and \(p_0\) is a singular point, or \(M\) is conformally equivalent to a round sphere. In addition, for any \(p\), the order \(\#\Gamma_p\) of the singularity group satisfies \(\#\Gamma_p\leq\#\Gamma_{p_0}\). The equality holds if and only if \(M\) is a quotient of a standard sphere. Several consequences of this theorem are then derived. Finally, the authors use the conformal compactification of a smooth manifold to produce explicit examples of orbifolds carrying twistor spinors.

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