The twistor spinors of generic 2- and 3-distributions

DOI10.1007/S10455-010-9240-2zbMATH Open1229.53058arXiv1004.3632OpenAlexW2078471063MaRDI QIDQ532567FDOQ532567

Authors: Matthias Hammerl, Katja Sagerschnig 

Publication date: 5 May 2011

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Generic distributions on 5- and 6-manifolds give rise to conformal structures that were discovered by P. Nurowski resp. R. Bryant. We describe both as Fefferman-type constructions and show that for orientable distributions one obtains conformal spin structures. The resulting conformal spin geometries are then characterized by their conformal holonomy and equivalently by the existence of a twistor spinor which satisfies a genericity condition. Moreover, we show that given such a twistor spinor we can decompose a conformal Killing field of the structure. We obtain explicit formulas relating conformal Killing fields, almost Einstein structures and twistor spinors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3632

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zbMATH Keywords

twistor spinorconformal geometryspin geometryconformal Killing vector fieldalmost Einstein structureconformal holnomyFefferman-type constructiongeneric distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Other special differential geometries (53A40) Other connections (53B15) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

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