Spinors of real type as polyforms and the generalized Killing equation
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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.
The authors consider the following question: suppose that \(\mathcal D \colon \Gamma(S) \to \Omega^1(M,S)\) is a connection on a irreducble real Clifford module bundle \(S\) over a pseudo-Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\). Can the generalised Killing equation \[\mathcal D \epsilon = 0,\] possibly supplemented with a linear constraint equation \(\mathcal Q \epsilon = 0\), be understood \textit{equivalently} as a system of algebraic and partial differential equation on the (not necessarily homogeneous) differential form \(\alpha\) obtained by squaring \(\epsilon\)? The authors solve this problem if \((M,g)\) is strongly spin and \(g\) has signature \((p,q)\) and \(p-q = 0,2 \mod 8\) (Theorems 1.1 and 4.26). The authors discuss applications to spin Lorentzian \(4\)-manifolds and Killing spinors (Theorems 1.2, 1.3, 1.4) thereon among others.
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