Spin cohomology

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2005.11.001zbMATH Open1107.53032arXivmath/0410494OpenAlexW3037949946MaRDI QIDQ2496776FDOQ2496776

Authors: George Papadopoulos 

Publication date: 20 July 2006

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

Abstract: We explore differential and algebraic operations on the exterior product of spinor representations and their twists that give rise to cohomology, the spin cohomology. A linear differential operator $d$ is introduced which is associated to a connection $abla$ and a parallel spinor $zeta$, $ablazeta=0$, and the algebraic operators $D_{(p)}$ are constructed from skew-products of $p$ gamma matrices. We exhibit a large number of spin cohomology operators and we investigate the spin cohomologies associated with connections whose holonomy is a subgroup of $SU(m)$, $G_2$, $Spin(7)$ and $Sp(2)$. In the $SU(m)$ case, we findthat the spin cohomology of complex spin and spin${}_c$ manifolds is related to a twisted Dolbeault cohomology. On Calabi-Yau type of manifolds of dimension $8k+6$, a spin cohomology can be defined on a twisted complex with operator $d+D$ which is the sum of a differential and algebraic one. We compute this cohomology on six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds using a spectral sequence. In the $G_2$ and $Spin(7)$ cases, the spin cohomology is related to the de Rham cohomology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410494

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zbMATH Keywords

holonomyspectral sequencespinorsspinor representationsspin cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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