Killing spinors are Killing vector fields in Riemannian supergeometry (Q1299185)

A supermanifold \(M\) is canonically associated to any pseudo-Riemannian spin manifold \((M_0,g_0)\) of signature \((k,l)\). Next, extending the metric \(g_0\) to a field \(g\) of bilinear forms \(g(p)\) on \(T_pM\), \(p\in M_0\), the pseudo-Riemannian supergeometry of \((M,g)\) is formulated as \(G\)-structure on \(M\), where \(G\) is a supergroup with even part \(G_0\cong \text{Spin}(k,l)\). The Killing vector fields on \((M,g)\) are, by definition, the infinitesimal automorphisms of this \(G\)-structure. For every spinor field \(s\) there exists a corresponding odd vector field \(X_s\) on \(M\). The main result of the present paper is that \(X_s\) is a Killing vector field on \((M,g)\) if and only if \(s\) is a twistor spinor. In particular, any Killing spinor \(s\) defines a Killing vector field \(X_s\).