Parallel spinors on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian four-manifolds (Q2116405)

Globally hyperbolic four-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds are fundamental to the study of Lorentzian geometry and mathematical physics, especially in mathematical general relativity, In this paper, the authors investigate the differential geometry and topology of globally hyperbolic four-manifolds admitting a parallel real spinor. The authors introduce the theory of parabolic pairs and parallel Cauchy pairs on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian four-manifolds, considering in addition the constrained Ricci-flat and Codazzi conditions, and characterize parallel Cauchy pairs on simply connected Cauchy surfaces, parallel Cauchy pairs and associated foliations in the compact case. Employing the classification of connected and simply connected three-dimensional Riemannian Lie groups developed in [\textit{J. W. Milnor}, Adv. Math. 21, 293--329 (1976; Zbl 0341.53030)], the authors investigate left-invariant parallel Cauchy pairs on connected and simply connected three-dimensional Lie groups. The authors also study a specific type of parallel spinor flow which admits a special geometric description, with the goal of obtaining explicit \textit{time-dependent} Lorentzian four-manifolds admitting parallel spinors.