Causal conformal vector fields, and singularities of twistor spinors

DOI10.1007/S10455-007-9060-1MaRDI QIDQ2385171zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charles Frances

Publication date 11 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-007-9060-1

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemLorentzian conformal geometrytwistor spinor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

Review text

The author studies the geometry around the singularity of a twistor spinor, on a Lorentz manifold \((M,g)\) of dimension greater or equal to three, endowed with a spin structure. Using the dynamical properties of conformal vector fields, he proves that the geometry has to be conformally flat on some open subset of any neighbourhood of the singularity. As a consequence, any analytic Lorentz manifold, admitting a twistor spinor with at least one zero has to be conformally flat.

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