About twistor spinors with zero in Lorentzian geometry

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.079MaRDI QIDQ970263zbMATHFDO

Authors Felipe Leitner

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406298

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal Killing spinorsLorentzian spin geometrytractors and twistors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

Abstract: We describe the local conformal geometry of a Lorentzian spin manifold $(M,g)$ admitting a twistor spinor $phi$ with zero. Moreover, we describe the shape of the zero set of $phi$. If $phi$ has isolated zeros then the metric $g$ is locally conformally equivalent to a static monopole. In the other case the zero set consists of null geodesic(s) and $g$ is locally conformally equivalent to a Brinkmann metric. Our arguments utilise tractor calculus in an essential way. The Dirac current of $phi$, which is a conformal Killing vector field, plays an important role for our discussion as well.

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