On the stability of Riemannian manifold with parallel spinors

DOI10.1007/S00222-004-0424-XMaRDI QIDQ2484073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xianzhe Dai, Xiaodong Wang, Guofang Wei

Publication date 2 August 2005

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1457
• On the variational stability of Kähler-Einstein metrics
• Holonomy rigidity for Ricci-flat metrics
• Stability of Riemannian manifolds with Killing spinors
• Parallel spinors and parallel forms

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3651366 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 44927 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1550913 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2147308 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1457 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3992337 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 844903 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3220969 (Why is no real title available?)
• A new proof of the positive energy theorem.
• A note on curvature and fundamental group
• A positive mass theorem for spaces with asymptotic SUSY compactification
• Calabi's conjecture and some new results in algebraic geometry
• Compact four-dimensional Einstein manifolds
• Conformal deformation of a Riemannian metric to constant scalar curvature
• Examples of complete manifolds of positive Ricci curvature with nilpotent isometry groups
• Harmonic spinors
• Metrics with exceptional holonomy
• On the proof of the positive mass conjecture in general relativity
• On the ricci curvature of a compact kähler manifold and the complex monge-ampére equation, I
• On the structure of manifolds with positive scalar curvature
• Parallel spinors and parallel forms
• Rigidity and stability of Einstein metrics - The case of compact symmetric spaces
• Scalar-flat closed manifolds not admitting positive scalar curvature metrics
• Simply connected manifolds of positive scalar curvature
• Stability of the Ricci flow at Ricci-flat metrics
• The Weil-Petersson geometry of the moduli space of SU(n 3) (Calabi- Yau) manifolds. I
• The classification of simply connected manifolds of positive scalar curvature
• The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications
• The fundamental group and the spectrum of the Laplacian
• The splitting theorem for manifolds of nonnegative Ricci curvature

Cited in

(47)

• Instability of some Riemannian manifolds with real Killing spinors
• On the stability of Einstein manifolds
• Dynamic instability of \(\mathbb {CP}^N\) under Ricci flow
• Unitarization from geometry
• The soliton-Ricci flow with variable volume forms
• Infinitesimal moduli of G2 holonomy manifolds with instanton bundles
• The stability of Fubini-Study metric on $\mathbb {CP}^n$
• The infinitesimal moduli space of heterotic \(G_2\) systems
• Local and global scalar curvature rigidity of Einstein manifolds
• Global stability of spacetimes with supersymmetric compactifications
• Geometry of Ricci solitons
• Stability of Einstein metrics on fiber bundles
• Energy functionals and soliton equations for G₂-forms
• Construction of initial data sets for Lorentzian manifolds with lightlike parallel spinors
• Stability of Riemannian manifolds with Killing spinors
• Perelman's -functional on manifolds with conical singularities
• Metrics with \(\lambda_1(-\Delta + k R) \ge 0\) and flexibility in the Riemannian Penrose inequality
• Cauchy spinors on 3-manifolds
• A spinorial energy functional: critical points and gradient flow
• On the variational stability of Kähler-Einstein metrics
• Stability of the non-symmetric space \(\operatorname{E}_7 / \operatorname{PSO}(8)\)
• On infinitesimal Einstein deformations
• Linear instability of Sasaki Einstein and nearly parallel G2 manifolds
• Nothing is certain in string compactifications
• Supersymmetry, Ricci flat manifolds and the string landscape
• Variational stability and rigidity of compact Einstein manifolds
• TT-eigentensors for the Lichnerowicz Laplacian on some asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds with warped products metrics
• Perelman's lambda-functional and the stability of Ricci-flat metrics
• Volume comparison with respect to scalar curvature
• Stability and instability of Ricci solitons
• The Lichnerowicz Laplacian on normal homogeneous spaces
• The stability of generalized Ricci solitons
• A G₂-Hilbert functional in G₂-geometry
• GENERALIZED RICCI FLOW AND SUPERGRAVITY VACUUM SOLUTIONS
• On the linear stability of nearly Kähler 6-manifolds
• Le Laplacien conforme sur les 2-tenseurs symétriques
• Lagrangian F-stability of closed Lagrangian self-shrinkers
• Index-energy estimates for Yang-Mills connections and Einstein metrics
• A TT tensor machine on Einstein manifolds
• Bootstrap bounds on closed Einstein manifolds
• Eigenvalue pinching on \(\text{spin}^c\) manifolds
• Stability of compact symmetric spaces
• Stable and unstable Einstein warped products
• Holonomy rigidity for Ricci-flat metrics
• Non-negative versus positive scalar curvature
• Linear and dynamical stability of Ricci-flat metrics
• Compactness of Dirac-Einstein spin manifolds and horizontal deformations

This page was built for publication: On the stability of Riemannian manifold with parallel spinors

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2484073)