Spinors of real type as polyforms and the generalized Killing equation
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DOI10.1007/S00209-021-02726-6zbMATH Open1494.53064arXiv1911.08658OpenAlexW3138500926MaRDI QIDQ2664641FDOQ2664641
Authors: V. Cortés, Calin-Iuliu Lazaroiu, C. S. Shahbazi 
Publication date: 17 November 2021
Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We develop a new framework for the study of generalized Killing spinors, where generalized Killing spinor equations, possibly with constraints, can be formulated equivalently as systems of partial differential equations for a polyform satisfying algebraic relations in the K"ahler-Atiyah bundle constructed by quantizing the exterior algebra bundle of the underlying manifold. At the core of this framework lies the characterization, which we develop in detail, of the image of the spinor squaring map of an irreducible Clifford module of real type as a real algebraic variety in the K"ahler-Atiyah algebra, which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a polyform to be the square of a real spinor. We apply these results to Lorentzian four-manifolds, obtaining a new description of a real spinor on such a manifold through a certain distribution of parabolic 2-planes in its cotangent bundle. We use this result to give global characterizations of real Killing spinors on Lorentzian four-manifolds and of four-dimensional supersymmetric configurations of heterotic supergravity. In particular, we find new families of Einstein and non-Einstein four-dimensional Lorentzian metrics admitting real Killing spinors, some of which are deformations of the metric of AdS space-time.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08658
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