Higher-degree Dirac currents of twistor and Killing spinors in supergravity theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/17/175007zbMATH Open1327.83185arXiv1501.05336OpenAlexW1486760222MaRDI QIDQ3447635FDOQ3447635

Ümit Ertem, Özgür Açık

Publication date: 27 October 2015

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that higher degree Dirac currents of twistor and Killing spinors correspond to the hidden symmetries of the background spacetime which are generalizations of conformal Killing and Killing vector fields respectively. They are the generalizations of 1-form Dirac currents to higher degrees which are used in constructing the bosonic supercharges in supergravity theories. In the case of Killing spinors, we find that the equations satisfied by the higher degree Dirac currents are related to Maxwell-like and Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equations. Correspondence between the Dirac currents and harmonic forms for parallel and pure spinor cases is determined. We also analyze the supergravity twistor and Killing spinor cases in 10 and 11-dimensional supergravity theories and find that although different inner product classes induce different involutions on spinors, the higher degree Dirac currents still correspond to the hidden symmetries of the spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05336

zbMATH Keywords

Killing spinorssupergravitytwistor spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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