Construction of initial data sets for Lorentzian manifolds with lightlike parallel spinors

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04172-1MaRDI QIDQ2231676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 30 September 2021

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02064

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemDirac currentLorentzian manifoldspin structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: Lorentzian manifolds with parallel spinors are important objects of study in several branches of geometry, analysis and mathematical physics. Their Cauchy problem has recently been discussed by Baum, Leistner and Lischewski, who proved that the problem locally has a unique solution up to diffeomorphisms, provided that the intial data given on a space-like hypersurface satisfy some constraint equations. In this article we provide a method to solve these constraint equations. In particular, any curve (resp. closed curve) in the moduli space of Riemannian metrics on $M$ with a parallel spinor gives rise to a solution of the constraint equations on $Mimes(a,b)$ (resp. $Mimes{S}^1$).

Review text

Let \((\bar N, \bar h)\) be a time- and space-oriented Lorentzian spin manifold, and let us fix a Hermitian product on \(\bar N\) with split signature. Let \(\bar \varphi\) be a non-vanishing parallel spinor with a light-like Dirac current \(V_{\bar \varphi} \in \Gamma (T\bar N)\). Let \(N\) be a spacelike hypersurface in \(\bar N\) with induced metric \(h\). The spin structure on \(\bar N\) induces a spin structure on \(N\). Let \(\Sigma N\) denote the associated spinor bundle. The spinor \(\bar \varphi\) induces a spinor \(\varphi\in \Gamma (\Sigma N)\), which satisfies several constraints. On the other hand, starting from a Riemannian spin manifold \((N, h)\) with some additional data satisfying the same constraints, one can recover a Lorentzian manifold \((\bar N, \bar h)\). These constraints were previously studied by \textit{H. Baum} et al. [Differ. Geom. Appl. 45, 43--66 (2016; Zbl 1339.53067)] and \textit{T. Leistner} and \textit{A. Lischewski} [J. Geom. Anal. 29, No. 1, 33--82 (2019; Zbl 1415.53041)]. The main aim of the paper under review is to provide a new method of obtaining solutions to the above constraint equations. In particular, the authors show how a smooth curve in the moduli space of closed Riemannian manifolds with a parallel spinor together with a scaling function gives rise to a solution of the constraint equations.

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