Killing spinors on Lorentzian manifolds (Q1867207)

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    Killing spinors on Lorentzian manifolds (English)
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    2 April 2003
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    The author studies Killing spinors on Lorentzian spin manifolds and, in particular, proves that 1) there are non-Einstein Lorentzian manifolds admitting imaginary Killing spinors (notice that for a Riemannian spin manifold the existence of a nontrivial Killing spinor implies that the manifold is Einstein); 2) a Lorentzian manifold admitting a nontrivial real Killing spinor locally looks as a codimension warped product whose fiber is either a Riemannian manifold with real, or imaginary, or parallel Killing spinor or a Lorentzian manifold with a real Killing spinor. He derives from the second statement that a Lorentzian manifold with a real Killing spinor is an Einstein manifold.
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    spin geometry
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    Killing spinors
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    Lorentzian manifolds
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    Einstein manifold
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