On the stability of Riemannian manifold with parallel spinors

DOI10.1007/S00222-004-0424-XzbMATH Open1075.53042arXivmath/0311253OpenAlexW2159231972WikidataQ115388533 ScholiaQ115388533MaRDI QIDQ2484073FDOQ2484073

Guofang Wei, Xiaodong Wang, Xianzhe Dai

Publication date: 2 August 2005

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inspired by the recent work of Physicists Hertog-Horowitz-Maeda, we prove two stability results for compact Riemannian manifolds with nonzero parallel spinors. Our first result says that Ricci flat metrics which also admits nonzero parallel spinors are stable (in the direction of changes in conformal structures) as the critical points of the total scalar curvature functional. In fact, we show that the Lichnerowicz Laplacian, which governs the second variation, is the square of a twisted Dirac operator. Our second result, which is a local version of the first one, shows that any metrics of positive scalar curvature cannot lie too close to a metric with nonzero parallel spinor. We also prove a rigidity result for special holonomy metrics. In the case of $SU(m)$ holonomy, the rigidity result implies that scalar flat deformations of Calabi-Yau metric must be Calabi-Yau. Finally we explore the connection with positive mass theorem, which presents another approach to proving these stability and rigidity results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311253

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zbMATH Keywords

parallel spinorsCalabi-Yau metricsRicci flat metricsspecial holonomy metricsstability of Riemannian metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Critical metrics (58E11)

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