The twistor spinors of generic 2- and 3-distributions

DOI10.1007/s10455-010-9240-2zbMath1229.53058arXiv1004.3632OpenAlexW2078471063MaRDI QIDQ532567

Katja Sagerschnig, Matthias Hammerl

Publication date: 5 May 2011

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometrygeneric distributionsspin geometrytwistor spinorconformal Killing vector fieldalmost Einstein structureconformal holnomyFefferman-type construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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