Coupling solutions of BGG-equations in conformal spin geometry

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.10.009MaRDI QIDQ2428145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Hammerl

Publication date 24 April 2012

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1547

zbMATH Keywords

almost Einstein scalesconformal Killing fieldsconformal Killing formscoupling known solutionstwistor spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Other connections (53B15) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

Abstract: BGG-equations are geometric overdetermined systems of PDEs on parabolic geometries. Normal solutions of BGG-equations are particularly interesting and we give a simple formula for the necessary and sufficient additional integrability conditions on a solution. We then discuss a procedure for coupling known solutions of BGG-equations to produce new ones. Employing a suitable calculus for conformal spin structures this yields explicit coupling formulas and conditions between almost Einstein scales, conformal Killing forms and twistor spinors. Finally we discuss a class of generic twistor spinors that provides an invariant decomposition of conformal Killing fields.

Review text

A simple formula for necessary and sufficient additional integrability conditions for a solution of BGG-equations (that is, geometric overdetermined systems of PDEs on parabolic geometries) to be normal, is given. Then, the author discusses a procedure for coupling known solutions of BGG-equations to produce new ones. Using a suitable calculus for conformal spin structures, this yields explicit coupling formulas and conditions between almost Einstein scales, conformal Killing fields and twistor spinors. A class of generic twistor spinors that provides an invariant decomposition of conformal Killing fields is also analyzed.

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