Spin-harmonic structures and nilmanifolds

Authors Giovanni Bazzoni, Lucía Martín-Merchán, Vicente Muñoz

Publication date 2 April 2019

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

Abstract: We introduce spin-harmonic structures, a class of geometric structures on Riemannian manifolds of low dimension which are defined by a harmonic unitary spinor. Such structures are related to SU(2) (dim=4,5), SU(3) (dim=6) and G_2 (dim=7) structures; in dimension 8, a spin-harmonic structure is equivalent to a balanced Spin(7) structure. As an application, we obtain examples of compact 8-manifolds endowed with non-integrable Spin(7) structures of balanced type.

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