Parallel spinors on Lorentzian Weyl spaces (Q2049536)

The authors study simply connected Lorentzian manifolds admitting a weighted parallel spinor with respect to a nonclosed Weyl connection. This means that one fixes a conformal class \(c\) of metrics of Lorentzian signature on \(M\), a torsion-free connection on \(TM\), a metric \(g\) in \(c\), and a \(1\)-form \(\omega\) such that \(\nabla g = 2\omega\otimes g\). The connection is nonclosed if \(\omega\) is not closed. In Riemannian signature, the study of parallel spinors on Weyl manifolds was initiated in [\textit{A. Moroianu}, Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 124, No. 4, 685--695 (1996; Zbl 0867.53013)]. The existence of a parallel spinor is equivalent to a restriction on the holonomy algebra, and the authors classify the possible holonomy algebras for manifolds carrying weighted parallel spinors. They prove the existence of special local coordinates which are particular instances of so-called Walker coordinates. They also construct examples of Einstein-Weyl structures (i.e., such that the symmetric part of the Ricci tensor is proportional to the metric) admitting parallel spinors.