Pure spinors, intrinsic torsion and curvature in even dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2016.02.006zbMATH Open1336.53059arXiv1212.3595OpenAlexW1815599622WikidataQ115355726 ScholiaQ115355726MaRDI QIDQ268440FDOQ268440

Authors: Arman Taghavi-Chabert 

Publication date: 15 April 2016

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the geometric properties of a $2m$-dimensional complex manifold $mathcalM$ admitting a holomorphic reduction of the frame bundle to the structure group $PsubsetmathrmSpin(2m,mathbbC)$, the stabiliser of the line spanned by a pure spinor at a point. Geometrically, $mathcalM$ is endowed with a holomorphic metric $g$, a holomorphic volume form, a spin structure compatible with $g$, and a holomorphic pure spinor field $xi$ up to scale. The defining property of $xi$ is that it determines an almost null structure, ie an $m$-plane distribution $mathcal{N}_{x}i$ along which $g$ is totally degenerate. We develop a spinor calculus, by means of which we encode the geometric properties of $mathcal{N}_{x}i$ corresponding to the algebraic properties of the intrinsic torsion of the $P$-structure. This is the failure of the Levi-Civita connection $abla$ of $g$ to be compatible with the $P$-structure. In a similar way, we examine the algebraic properties of the curvature of $abla$. Applications to spinorial differential equations are given. In particular, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the almost null structure associated to a pure conformal Killing spinor to be integrable. We also conjecture a Goldberg-Sachs-type theorem on the existence of a certain class of almost null structures when $(mathcalM,g)$ has prescribed curvature. We discuss applications of this work to the study of real pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3595

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zbMATH Keywords

distributionscomplex Riemannian geometrycurvature prescriptionintrinsic torsionpure spinorsspinorial equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Other complex differential geometry (53C56) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

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