Special metrics and triality

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2008.07.017zbMATH Open1170.53020arXivmath/0602414OpenAlexW2047635027MaRDI QIDQ952430FDOQ952430

Authors: Frederik Witt 

Publication date: 12 November 2008

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a new 8-dimensional Riemannian geometry defined by a generic closed and coclosed 3-form with stabiliser PSU(3), and which arises as a critical point of Hitchin's variational principle. We give a Riemannian characterisation of this structure in terms of invariant spinor-valued 1-forms, which are harmonic with respect to the twisted Dirac operator $Db$ on $DeltaotimesLambd{a}^1$. We establish various obstructions to the existence of topological reductions to PSU(3). For compact manifolds, we also give sufficient conditions for topological PSU(3)-structures that can be lifted to topological SU(3)-structures. We also construct the first known compact example of an integrable non-symmetric PSU(3)-structure. In the same vein, we give a new Riemannian characterisation for topological quaternionic K"ahler structures which are defined by an $Sp(1)cdotSp(2)$-invariant self-dual 4-form. Again, we show that this form is closed if and only if the corresponding spinor-valued 1-form is harmonic for $Db$ and that these equivalent conditions produce constraints on the Ricci tensor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602414

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorspecial Riemannian metricsRarita-Schwinger fields\(PSU(3)\)-structure\(Sp(1)\cdot Sp(2)\)-structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

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