Spinors as automorphisms of the tangent bundle

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03531-1zbMATH Open1066.53094arXivmath/0210418MaRDI QIDQ4452273FDOQ4452273

Authors: Alexandru Scorpan 

Publication date: 12 February 2004

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that, on a 4-manifold M endowed with a spin^c structure induced by an almost-complex structure, a self-dual (= positive) spinor field phi in Gamma(W^+) is the same as a bundle morphism phi: TM o TM acting on the fiber by self-dual conformal transformations, such that the Clifford multiplication is just the evaluation of phi on tangent vectors, and that the squaring map sigma: W^+ o Lambda^+ acts by pulling-back the fundamental form of the almost-complex structure. We use this to detect Kahler and symplectic structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210418

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

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