Quaternionic Killing spinors

DOI10.1023/A:1006545828324MaRDI QIDQ1386173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Massart

Publication date 16 May 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706017

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatoreigenvalue estimatequaternionic Killing spinorquaternionic Kähler manifoldWolf space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: In a previous article we proved a lower bound for the spectrum of the Dirac operator on quaternionic Kaehler manifolds. In the present article we study the limiting case, i. e. manifolds where the lower bound is attained as an eigenvalue. We give an equivalent formulation in terms of a quaternionic Killing equation and show that the only symmetric quaternionic Kaehler manifolds with smallest possible eigenvalue are the quaternionic projective spaces.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed quaternionic Kähler manifold. Suppose \(M\) is spin and of positive scalar curvature. It was shown by the same three authors in [`Eigenvalue estimates for the Dirac operator on quaternionic Kähler manifolds' (Preprint 507, SFB 256, Bonn) (1997; dg-ga/9709014)] that all eigenvalues \(\lambda\) of the Dirac operator satisfy \[ \lambda^2 \geq {\kappa\over 4}{n+3\over n+2} \] where \(n\) is the quaternionic dimension of \(M\) and \(\kappa\) its scalar curvature. Note that \(\kappa\) is constant because all quaternionic Kähler manifolds are Einstein. This estimate is sharp since equality is attained for the smallest eigenvalue of quaternionic projective space. It is natural to ask if there are quaternionic Kähler manifolds other than projective space for which this estimate is sharp. The partial answer given in the present paper is: not among symmetric quaternionic Kähler manifolds. In a more recent paper [Commun. Math. Phys. 199, 327-349 (1998)], the authors improve this result and remove the restriction to symmetric spaces. The answer to the question is simply no. The proof in the present article is based on a quaternionic version of the Killing spinor equation and the classification of symmetric spaces.

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• An upper bound for a Hilbert polynomial on quaternionic Kähler manifolds
• Spectral properties of the twistor fibration of a quaternion Kähler manifold
• Lower bounds for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on quaternionic Kähler spin manifolds
• Spectrum of the Laplacian on quaternionic Kähler manifolds
• Eigenvalues of the basic Dirac operator on quaternion-Kähler foliations
• ESTIMATING THE EIGENVALUES ON QUATERNIONIC KÄHLER MANIFOLDS
• Second order Einstein deformations

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