Spin spaces, Lipschitz groups, and spinor bundles

DOI10.1023/A:1006713405277zbMATH Open0964.15033arXivmath/9901137MaRDI QIDQ1586048FDOQ1586048

Authors: Thomas Friedrich, Andrzej Trautman 

Publication date: 9 July 2001

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that every bundle $varSigmaoM$ of complex spinor modules over the Clifford bundle $Cl(g)$ of a Riemannian space $(M,g)$ with local model $(V,h)$ is associated with an lpin ("Lipschitz") structure on $M$, this being a reduction of the $Ort(h)$-bundle of all orthonormal frames on M to the Lipschitz group $Lpin(h)$ of all automorphisms of a suitably defined spin space. An explicit construction is given of the total space of the $Lpin(h)$-bundle defining such a structure. If the dimension m of M is even, then the Lipschitz group coincides with the complex Clifford group and the lpin structure can be reduced to a pin${}^c$ structure. If m=2n-1, then a spinor module $varSigma$ on M is of the Cartan type: its fibres are 2^n-dimensional and decomposable at every point of M, but the homomorphism of bundles of algebras $Cl(g)oEndvarSigma$ globally decomposes if, and only if, M is orientable. Examples of such bundles are given. The topological condition for the existence of an lpin structure on an odd-dimensional Riemannian manifold is derived and illustrated by the example of a manifold admitting such a structure, but no pin^c structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9901137

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldspin structuresRiemannian spaceClifford groupLipschitz groupClifford and spinor bundlesspin spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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