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Generalized Killing spinors in dimension 5

Differential Geometry 2007-09-13 v2

Abstract

We study the intrinsic geometry of hypersurfaces in Calabi-Yau manifolds of real dimension 6 and, more generally, SU(2)-structures on 5-manifolds defined by a generalized Killing spinor. We prove that in the real analytic case, such a 5-manifold can be isometrically embedded as a hypersurface in a Calabi-Yau manifold in a natural way. We classify nilmanifolds carrying invariant structures of this type, and present examples of the associated metrics with holonomy SU(3).

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@article{arxiv.math/0508375,
  title  = {Generalized Killing spinors in dimension 5},
  author = {Diego Conti and Simon Salamon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508375},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

30 pages. v2: corrected the statement and proof of Theorem 14; added a comment on the embedding property in the non-real-analytic case