Spin cohomology (Q2496776)

We explore differential and algebraic operations on the exterior product of spinor representations and their twists that give rise to cohomology, the spin cohomology. A linear differential operator \(d\) is introduced which is associated to a connection \(\nabla\) and a parallel spinor \(\zeta\), \(\nabla\zeta=0\), and the algebraic operators \(D_{(p)}\) are constructed from skew-products of \(p\) gamma matrices. We exhibit a large number of spin cohomology operators and we investigate the spin cohomologies associated with connections whose holonomy is a subgroup of SU\((m)\), \(G_2\), \(Spin(7)\) and Sp(2). In the SU\((m)\) case, we find that the spin cohomology of complex spin and spinc manifolds is related to a twisted Dolbeault cohomology. On Calabi-Yau type of manifolds of dimension \(8k+6\), a spin cohomology can be defined on a twisted complex with operator \(d+D\) which is the sum of a differential and an algebraic one. We compute this cohomology on six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds using a spectral sequence. In the \(G_2\) and Spin(7) cases, the spin cohomology is related to the de Rham cohomology.