Parallel spinors and connections with skew-symmetric torsion in string theory. (Q1811396)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1925761
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    Parallel spinors and connections with skew-symmetric torsion in string theory.
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1925761

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      Parallel spinors and connections with skew-symmetric torsion in string theory. (English)
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      9 October 2003
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      We describe all almost contact metric, almost Hermitian and \(G_2\)-structures admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion tensor, and prove that there exists at most one such connection. We investigate its torsion form, its Ricci tensor, the Dirac operator and the \(\nabla\)-parallel spinors. In particular, we obtain partial solutions of the type II string equations in dimensions \(n = 5\), 6 and 7.
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      \(G_2\)-structures
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      skew-symmetric torsion tensor
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      parallel spinors
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      type II string equations
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