Killing and twistor spinors with torsion

DOI10.1007/S10455-015-9483-ZzbMATH Open1365.53049arXiv1509.08449OpenAlexW2232250512MaRDI QIDQ258022FDOQ258022

Authors: Ioannis Chrysikos 

Publication date: 17 March 2016

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

Abstract: We study twistor spinors (with torsion) on Riemannian spin manifolds $(M^n,g,T)$ carrying metric connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion. We consider the characteristic connection $abl{a}^c=abl{a}^g+frac12T$ and under the condition $abl{a}^{c}T=0$, we show that the twistor equation with torsion w.r.t. the family $abl{a}^s=abl{a}^g+2sT$ can be viewed as a parallelism condition under a suitable connection on the bundle $SigmaoplusSigma$, where $Sigma$ is the associated spinor bundle. Consequently, we prove that a twistor spinor with torsion has isolated zero points. Next we study a special class of twistor spinors with torsion, namely these which are $T$-eigenspinors and parallel under the characteristic connection; we show that the existence of such a spinor for some $seq1/4$ implies that $(M^n,g,T)$ is both Einstein and $abl{a}^c$-Einstein, in particular the equation ${mRic}^s=frac{mScal}^{s}ng$ holds for any $sinmathbbR$. In fact, for $abl{a}^c$-parallel spinors we provide a correspondence between the Killing spinor equation with torsion and the Riemannian Killing spinor equation. This allows us to describe 1-parameter families of non-trivial Killing spinors with torsion on nearly K"ahler manifolds and nearly parallel ${mG}_2$-manifolds, in dimensions 6 and 7, respectively, but also on the 3-dimensional sphere ${mS}^3$. We finally present applications related to the universal and twistorial eigenvalue estimate of the square of the cubic Dirac operator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08449

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zbMATH Keywords

characteristic connectionKilling spinor with torsionparallel spinortwistor spinor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

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