scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1133266

MaRDI QIDQ4382020zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jean Pierre Bourguignon

Publication date 22 November 1998

zbMATH Keywords

3-Sasakian structureDirac operatorEinstein metricsEinstein-Kähler manifoldsKilling spinorssupersymmetrytwistor operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Review text

The article is a summary of three lectures on Killing spinors and related subjects. At first, the author gives a short review of the definition of Killing spinors and two natural differential operators, the Dirac operator and the twistor operator. Then he discusses some necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Killing spinors, especially the connections with eigenvalue estimates of the Dirac operator and with parallel spinors on the cone. If a Killing spinor exists, then the metric is Einstein. On Kähler manifolds there are no Killing spinors, but there may be Kähler-Killing spinors. Their existence forces the metric to be Einstein-Kähler. The article contains many good references to further literature. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00043].

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